The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities by Martin Menz, Analis... - 9780817361556

The Archaeology of Arcuate CommunitiesSpatial Patterning and Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands\nAuthor(s): Martin Menz, Analise Hollingshead, Haley Messer, Aaron R. Comstock, Robert A. Cook, Steven L. De Vore, William Green, Analise Hollingshead, Megan C. Kassabaum, Bernard K. Means\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817361556, 978-0817361556\nSynopsis\nThe Archaeology of Arcuate Communities is an edited collection of ten essays that illuminate how Indigenous communities of the Eastern Woodlands, from 10,000 BC to the 1550s, are analyzed and interpreted by archaeologists today. Volume editors Martin Menz, Analise Hollingshead, and Haley Messer define the persistent circular or arcuate pattern of Native settlements in this region as a spatial manifestation of community activities that reinforced group identity alongside plazas, mounds, and other architectural features.\n\n The varied c.