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Book SynopsisExamines new advances in studying the history of the Caddo peoples
Trade Review"Editors Timothy Perttula and Chester Walker has compiled the most comprehensive body of research about the Caddo peoples available today."—Sandy Amazeen,
Monsters and Critics"A timely, useful volume. . . . Worth having, reading, and referencing."—Don G. Wyckoff,
American AntiquityTable of ContentsList of Figures
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Foreword
1. The Archaeology of the Caddo in Southwest Arkansas, Northwest Louisiana, Eastern Oklahoma, and East Texas: An Introduction to the Volume
Timothy K. Perttula
2. Form and Structure in Prehistoric Caddo Pottery Design
Ann M. Early
3. At the House of the Priest: Faunal Remains from the Crenshaw Site (3MI6), Southwest Arkansas
H. Edwin Jackson, Susan L. Scott, and Frank Schambach
4. Bioarchaeological Evidence of Subsistence Strategies among the East Texas Caddo
Diane Wilson
5. Spiro Reconsidered: Sacred Economy at the Western Frontier of the Eastern Woodlands
James A. Brown
6. Viewshed Characteristics of Caddo Mounds in the Arkansas Basin
Gregory Vogel
7. Exploring Prehistoric Caddo Communities through Archaeogeophysics
Chester P. Walker and Duncan P. McKinnon
8. The Evolution of a Caddo Community in Northeast Texas
Timothy K. Perttula and Robert Rogers
9. Settlement Patterns and Variation in Caddo Pottery Decoration: A Case Study of the Willow Chute Bayou Locality
Jeffrey S. Girard
10. Caddo in the Saline River Valley of Arkansas: The Borderlands Project and the Hughes Site
Mary Beth Trubitt
11. Spatial Patterns of Caddo Mound Sites in the West Gulf Coastal Plain of Arkansas
Jami J. Lockhart
12. Decisions in Landscape Setting Selection of the Prehistoric Caddo of Southeastern Oklahoma: A gis Analysis
Robert L. Brooks
13. The Character of Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Caddo Communities in the Big Cypress Creek Basin of Northeast Texas
Timothy K. Perttula
14. The Belcher Phase: Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Caddo Occupation of the Red River Valley in Northwest Louisiana and Southwest Arkansas
David B. Kelley
15. The Terán Map and Caddo Cosmology
George Sabo III
References Cited
Contributors
Index
