The Archaeological Northeast

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Despite the advances made in archaeology over the past generation, the Northeast remains the most misunderstood of all the archaeological regions of North America. With a complex environmental history shaped by ice sheets from the last glaciation, and highly acidic soils characteristic of the area, the kinds of organic artifacts found in other areas have been destroyed in the Northeast. The result is a sometimes evasive, particularly complicated, and always fragmentary archaeological record. As the chapters in this volume demonstrate, the Northeast is a region that inspires the development of innovative research designs and thoughtful and relevant questions. Each author has been a graduate student of Dena Dincauze, who has done much to foster understanding of the prehistory of Northeastern North America.

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"These are thoughtful and stimulating articles dealing with virtually every period since humans first entered the Northeast. An up-to-date reference on the archaeology of the Northeast has been much needed, and this volume should be welcomed by archaeologists here and in other regions. The Archaeological Northeast admirably fulfills its editors' goal of moving the Northeast from the archaeological periphery to the center of theoretical and methodological discourse."-Barbara E. Luedtke Department of Anthropology University of Massachusetts, Boston
.,."represents a good testimony to the impact of the research methodology and practice advocated by Dena Dincauze. Not only does the volume contain information that outlines current issues in Northeastern archaeology, but it also offers wider insights into how achaeologists collect, process, and interpret information. The most valuable contribution of this collection of papers is their explicit demand that archaeologists periodically reevaluate the data and what it means, while avoiding blind acceptance of entrenched assumptions. The authors of this book invite us to change our perspectives and do so with compelling arguments."-Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology
...represents a good testimony to the impact of the research methodology and practice advocated by Dena Dincauze. Not only does the volume contain information that outlines current issues in Northeastern archaeology, but it also offers wider insights into how achaeologists collect, process, and interpret information. The most valuable contribution of this collection of papers is their explicit demand that archaeologists periodically reevaluate the data and what it means, while avoiding blind acceptance of entrenched assumptions. The authors of this book invite us to change our perspectives and do so with compelling arguments.-Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology
[A] well-represented volume of articles from some of the region's most talented practitioners....As a contributed volume, this book is as much about archaeologists as is about New England archaeology. It reflects a vigorous and healthy collective broadening of perspective, sophistication in the appropriate application of related sciences, and most importantly, recognition of reliance upon a firm anthropological foundation.-Northeast Historical Archaeology
Ably edited....The Archaeological Northeast presents an impressive collections of essays on the archaeological excursions of the American Northeast....The Archaeological Northeast is a superbly presented, scholarly survey and an invaluable, seminal, addition to archaeological studies reading lists, Native America studies curriculum supplements, and prehistory of Northeastern North American library reference collections.-Bookwatch
"A well-represented volume of articles from some of the region's most talented practitioners....As a contributed volume, this book is as much about archaeologists as is about New England archaeology. It reflects a vigorous and healthy collective broadening of perspective, sophistication in the appropriate application of related sciences, and most importantly, recognition of reliance upon a firm anthropological foundation."-Northeast Historical Archaeology
"[A] well-represented volume of articles from some of the region's most talented practitioners....As a contributed volume, this book is as much about archaeologists as is about New England archaeology. It reflects a vigorous and healthy collective broadening of perspective, sophistication in the appropriate application of related sciences, and most importantly, recognition of reliance upon a firm anthropological foundation."-Northeast Historical Archaeology
"Ably edited....The Archaeological Northeast presents an impressive collections of essays on the archaeological excursions of the American Northeast....The Archaeological Northeast is a superbly presented, scholarly survey and an invaluable, seminal, addition to archaeological studies reading lists, Native America studies curriculum supplements, and prehistory of Northeastern North American library reference collections."-Bookwatch
..."represents a good testimony to the impact of the research methodology and practice advocated by Dena Dincauze. Not only does the volume contain information that outlines current issues in Northeastern archaeology, but it also offers wider insights into how achaeologists collect, process, and interpret information. The most valuable contribution of this collection of papers is their explicit demand that archaeologists periodically reevaluate the data and what it means, while avoiding blind acceptance of entrenched assumptions. The authors of this book invite us to change our perspectives and do so with compelling arguments."-Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology

Author Bio

MARY ANN LEVINE is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania. KENNETH E. SASSAMAN is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. MICHAEL S. NASSANEY is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.