Conflicted Landscapes An Integrative Bioarchaeological and Archaeobotanical Study of the Forbush Creek Site, North Carolina

Between AD 400 and 900, southeastern American Indian groups made significant changes to their lifeways. These shifts, referred to as the Late Woodland transition, marked a significant departure from subsistence and settlement practices that had remained relatively stable since 1000 BC (Anderson and...

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Published inAncient Foodways p. 235
Main Authors STEPH M. BERGER, ANNA F. GRAHAM
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University Press of Florida 30.12.2022
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Summary:Between AD 400 and 900, southeastern American Indian groups made significant changes to their lifeways. These shifts, referred to as the Late Woodland transition, marked a significant departure from subsistence and settlement practices that had remained relatively stable since 1000 BC (Anderson and Mainfort 2002). Communities began to integrate farming with foraging, settle on fertile agricultural land in river valleys, and coalesce into more permanent villages. Rapid growth of both populations and settlements followed intensified cultivation, and the burgeoning communities came into greater contact and conflict (Anderson and Sassaman 2012; Milner et al. 2013; Ward and Davis 1999). However, considerable
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