Archaeology of the Lower Muskogee Creek Indians, 1715-1836
Автор:H. Thomas Foster Год: 2007 Издание:University Alabama Press Страниц: 328 ISBN: 0817353658 The first comprehensive archaeological survey of the Muskogee (MaskA?kA®) Creek Indians. The Muskogee Indians who lived along the lower Chattahoochee and Flint River watersheds had, and continue to have, a profound influence on the development of the southeastern United States, especially during the historic period (circa 1540–1836). Our knowledge of that culture is limited to what we can learn from their descendants and from archaeological and historical sources. Combining historical documents and archaeological research on all known Lower Muskogee Creek sites, Thomas Foster has accurately pinpointed town locations discussed in the literature and reported in contemporary Creek oral histories. In so doing, this volume synthesizes the archaeological diversity and variation within the Lower Creek Indians between 1715 and 1836. The book is a study of archaeological methods because it analyzes the temporal and geographic...
