Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
The essays in Foragers and Farmers of the Early and Middle Woodland Periods in Pennsylvania reflect a range of recent thought and research on what Paul Raber describes as one of the most "enigmatic periods of Pennsylvania's prehistory." The essays represent a variety of viewpoints and approaches to the period, from the site-specific to the synthetic, and they include evidence from all parts of the commonwealth. Together, they define the principal themes and issues in Early and Middle Woodland studies and show a variety of ways in which researchers in Pennsylvania are attempting to address them. The issues outlined in Foragers and Farmers offer a framework in which continuing research on this period can contribute to the broader study of some of the major questions in archaeology.
Along with the editors, the contributors are J. M. Adovasio, Kristen A. Beckman, Thomas C. East, R. Fryman, Janet R. Johnson, Michael Klein, Mark A. McConaughy, D. R. Pedler, A. G. Quinn, R. Michael Stewart, and Andrew Wyatt.
Table of Contents
A regional perspective on Early and Middle Woodland prehistory in Pennsylvania / R. Michael Stewart -- Early and Middle Woodland settlement data for the Susquehanna basin / Andrew Wyatt -- The Powys site (36LY254), a terminal Middle Woodland site in central Pennsylvania / Thomas C. East and Kristen A. Beckman -- The appearance of cultigens and the Early and Middle Woodland periods in southwestern Pennsylvania / J.M. Adovasio ... et al. -- Western Pennsylvania stone mounds : looking for patterns / Verna L. Cowin -- Sugar Run Mound (36Wa359) and Village (36Wa2) : Hopewell/Middle Woodland in Warren County, Pennsylvania / Mark A. McConaughy and Janet R. Johnson -- Of time and three rivers : comments of Early and Middle Woodland archaeology in Pennsylvania / Michael Klein.