The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities

Archaeology of Arcuate Communitities is a timely and insightful volume with a focused and comprehensive collection of chapters. . . Each chapter stands alone, yet taken as a group form a conversation about community making and archaeology.’
—Ramie Gougeon, coeditor of Archaeological Perspectives of the Southern Appalachians: A Multiscalar Approach
 

The deep history and pervasiveness of social life in the round invite speculation over its transhistorical and intercultural qualities. And yet, as contributors of this volume share through rich examples, this common spatial disposition belies marked social variations among ancient communities of the Eastern Woodlands. These compelling cases give renewed purpose to an archaeology of arcuate living.’
—Kenneth E. Sassaman, Hyatt and Cici Brown Professor of Florida Archaeology, University of Florida
 

This volume is an important steppingstone in our understanding of the relationship between villages and communities in Indigenous eastern North America. The chapters within will be valuable to anyone studying settlements, as the authors seek to build new ideas from the ground up using a wide array of multiscalar evidence.’
—Eric E. Jones, associate professor of archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder

‘The Archaeology of Arcuate Communities offers an unparalleled review of how southeastern Indigenous peoples organized their villages and towns for thousands of years and how these organizational principals provide critical insights into the political, social, and cultural worlds of these communities.’
—Matthew C. Sanger, Curator of North American Archaeology at the National Museum of American Indian