Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Wescott, Kim URN etd-11202008-215156 Title Riverfront Village and the Practice of Storage: A Subterranean Feature Analysis Degree Master of Arts Department Anthropology and Geography Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Dr. Despina Margomenou Committee Chair Dr. Frank Williams Committee Member Dr. Jeffrey Glover Committee Member Keywords
- Southeastern archaeology
- Mississippian
- Storage
- Feature analysis
- Savannah River valley
- Riverfront Village
Date of Defense 2008-11-14 Availability unrestricted Abstract As the focus in southeastern archaeology shifts away from large scale hierarchical analyses in favor of agency based approaches, our understanding of Mississippian settlements has changed. This research is an attempt to fill the “fuzzy gap” in Mississippian archaeological literature left by decades of research premised on Neo-evolutionary models and theories. In this thesis, I present my case study on Riverfront Village, a small Mississippian “hamlet” located in the Savannah River Valley. Through an analysis of subterranean pit features, I present a new feature classification scheme open to variability, and address how variations within the practice of subterranean storage relate to social complexity.Files
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