Time Before History: The Archaeology of North CarolinaNorth Carolina's written history begins in the sixteenth century with the voyages of Sir Walter Raleigh and the founding of the ill-fated Lost Colony on Roanoke Island. But there is a deeper, unwritten past that predates the state's recorded history. The |
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Contents
The Early Saratown Phase AD 14501600 | 117 |
The Southern Piedmont | 119 |
The Pee Dee Culture | 123 |
The Caraway Phase AD 15001700 | 134 |
The Search for Cherokee Roots | 138 |
The Woodland Period | 139 |
The Early Woodland Period 1000300 BC | 140 |
The Middle Woodland Period 300 BCAD 800 | 146 |
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The Whites Creek Survey and the Forbush Creek Excavations | 95 |
Summary | 97 |
The Late Woodland Period AD 8001600 | 98 |
The Uwharrie Phase AD 8001200 | 100 |
The Haw River Phase AD 10001400 | 103 |
The Dan River Phase AD 10001450 | 105 |
The Donnaha Phase AD 10001450 | 109 |
The Hillsboro Phase AD 14001600 | 112 |
The Late Woodland Period AD 8001100 | 157 |
The South Appalachian Mississippian Tradition | 158 |
The Pisgah Phase AD 10001450 | 160 |
Mound Structure and Political Complexity | 175 |
Lamar Culture and the Qualla Phase after AD 1350 | 178 |
The Eastern Fringe of the Appalachian Summit | 190 |
Summary | 192 |
6 The Woodland Period on the Coast and Coastal Plain | 194 |
A Brief History of Coastal Plain Archaeology | 195 |
The Early Woodland Period 1000300 BC | 199 |
The Deep Creek and New River Phases | 200 |
Hamps Landing | 202 |
The Middle Woodland Period 300 BCAD 800 | 203 |
The Cape Fear Phase | 204 |
Sand Burial Mounds | 206 |
The Late Woodland Period AD 8001650 | 210 |
The Colington Phase | 211 |
The White Oak Phase | 216 |
The Cashie Phase | 223 |
Summary | 226 |
Tribes Traders and Turmoil | 229 |
The Contact Period in the Central Piedmont AD 16001710 | 233 |
The Mitchum Phase AD 16001670 | 235 |
The Jenrette Phase AD 16001680 | 237 |
The Fredricks Phase AD 16801710 | 242 |
The North Central Piedmont during the Contact Period | 247 |
The Late Saratown Phase AD 16701710 | 248 |
Contact Interaction and Cultural Change in the Piedmont | 254 |
European Plants and Livestock | 256 |
Disease | 257 |
The Contact Period in the Appalachian Summit | 260 |
The Late Qualla Phase AD 17001838 | 267 |
The Contact Period along the North Carolina Coast | 272 |
Summary | 275 |
References Cited | 277 |
Index | 299 |
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Common terms and phrases
Algonkian archaeological archaeologists artifacts Badin beads bones burials Cape Fear ceramic clay coast Coastal Plain coastal region Colington complicated-stamped Connestee phase Contact period contained cordmarked County Coweeta Creek Dan River Dickens Doerschuk Donnaha earlier Early Archaic Early Woodland European evidence excavations Fredricks Gaston Georgia graves Hardaway Haw River Hillsboro phase Indian Jenrette Keel Keyauwee Lamar large number Late Archaic period Late Woodland period located midden Middle Archaic Mount Pleasant phase native North Carolina North Carolina Piedmont Occaneechi ossuary Paleo-Indian Phase A.D. phase sites Phelps Pisgah Pisgah phase postholes potsherds pottery Qualla phase radiocarbon dates remains River phase Saratown phase Savannah River settlement shell sherds similar simple stamped Siouan South Appalachian Mississippian Southeast southern spear points stockade subsistence suggest surface Swannanoa tempered Town Creek town house trade tradition types University of North Upper Saratown Uwharrie vessel village Ward and Davis Warren Wilson Yadkin Yadkin River
Popular passages
Page 283 - FIGGINS, Jesse D., 1927, The antiquity of man in America. Natural History 27(3):229-239. FLANNERY, Kent V., 1973, Archaeology with a capital "S.
Page 16 - Projectile points have served as temporal indicators since the realization by some prehistorians "that when an occupation zone can be found that represents a relatively short period of time the usual hodgepodge of projectile points types are not found — only variations of one specific theme
Page 281 - RP Stephen Davis, Jr., Patrick C. Livingood, H. Trawick Ward, and Vincas P. Steponaitis, pp.
Page 120 - This site is believed to be the location of the Indian village 'Keyauwee' visited in 1701 by John Lawson, then surveyor general of North Carolina. Soon after his visit the village was abandoned and its exact location remains much of a mystery today. It is hoped that this excavation will yield sufficient evidence to determine the culture of its inhabitants, if not definitely to prove it to be the 'Keyauwee' village
Page 275 - These Sewees have been formerly a large Nation, though now very much decreas'd, since the English hath seated their Land, and all other Nations of Indians are observ'd to partake of the same Fate, where the Europeans come...
Page 48 - The history of the Eastern Woodlands can be regarded as a single structure of interrelated parts, connected in large degree as a great interaction sphere from a time as remote as the first (Archaic) period for which we have any considerable information
Page 283 - Spheres of Cultural Interaction across the Coastal Plain of Virginia in the Woodland Period. In Structure and Process in Southeastern Archaeology, edited by Roy S. Dickens Jr. and H. Trawick Ward, 229-242.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Time Before History: The Archaeology of North Carolina |
| Authors | H. Trawick Ward, R. P. Stephen Davis |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | UNC Press Books, 1999 |
| ISBN | 0807847801, 9780807847800 |
| Length | 312 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / United States / State & Local / General Social Science / Archaeology Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies |
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