Native American Communities of the Gulf Coast ca AD 1150 1700 What Archaeology Can Tell Us
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News Article
Abstract
Alabama Archaeological Society, Southwest Chapter Meeting & Lecture February 23, 2023 Mobile Bay was a thriving cultural crossroads for many millennia before the first Europeans settled here, and archaeology has a lot to tell us about the Native American communities who called this place home and their connections with people from far-flung places. This talk focuses on recent archaeological fieldwork conducted by USA faculty and students in and around Mobile Bay and discusses what we know about their interactions with other Native communities throughout Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida. Dr. Erin S. Nelson is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Alabama, Mobile. Her research examines the material remains of foodways, monumental and domestic architecture, and the organization of space to understand how past people negotiated issues of kinship, group identity, leadership, and worldview in the context of their communities. She is the author of Authority, Autonomy, and the Archaeology of a Mississippian Community (2021). Her newest research project examines the origins and development of the Pensacola Mississippian expression of the northern Gulf Coast through the lens of pottery.
Publication Date
Spring 4-5-2023
Recommended Citation
Nelson, Erin S., "Native American Communities of the Gulf Coast ca AD 1150 1700 What Archaeology Can Tell Us" (2023). Speaker Presentations. 19.
https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/museum-archives_presentations/19
Alabama Archaeological Society, Southwest Chapter Meeting & Lecture February 23, 2023 Mobile Bay was a thriving cultural crossroads for many millennia before the first Europeans settled here, and archaeology has a lot to tell us about the Native American communities who called this place home and their connections with people from far-flung places. This talk focuses on recent archaeological fieldwork conducted by USA faculty and students in and around Mobile Bay and discusses what we know about their interactions with other Native communities throughout Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida. Dr. Erin S. Nelson is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of South Alabama, Mobile. Her research examines the material remains of foodways, monumental and domestic architecture, and the organization of space to understand how past people negotiated issues of kinship, group identity, leadership, and worldview in the context of their communities. She is the author of Authority, Autonomy, and the Archaeology of a Mississippian Community (2021). Her newest research project examines the origins and development of the Pensacola Mississippian expression of the northern Gulf Coast through the lens of pottery.