The View from Jaketown: Considering Variation in the Poverty Point Culture of the Lower Mississippi Valley
The View from Jaketown: Considering Variation in the Poverty Point Culture of the Lower Mississippi Valley
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DOI：
10.1017/aaq.2022.32
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发表时间：
2022-05
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Grace M. V. Ward;Seth B. Grooms;Andrew Schroll;T. Kidder
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作者：
Grace M. V. Ward;Seth B. Grooms;Andrew Schroll;T. Kidder
雅克敦是密西西比河谷下游的一处晚期古土方遗址，最近的一项研究表明，用于解释该地区雅克敦和当代遗址的文化-历史框架掩盖了不同遗址做法的差异。作为另一种选择，我们提出了一个框架，专注于雅克敦和地区性地点贫困点之间的物质文化、建筑和美食方面的差异。我们的分析表明，人们在雅克敦使用贫困点物品和进口石材的时间为4525-4100卡BP-比该地区的其他地方更早。到公元前3450-3350年，人们密集占领雅克敦，收获了一套一致的野生植物。在3445至3270卡尔BP之间，在贫困点的土方工程达到顶峰之前，雅克敦的社区建造了至少两个土方工程和多个柱子结构，在3300卡尔BP之后的某个时候发生了灾难性的洪水，将晚期的古老景观掩埋在冲积层下。这些新的数据让我们得出结论，下密西西比河谷晚期的考古记录并没有反映出统一的地区文化。相反，雅克敦和贫困点之间的关系表明了一种多极化的历史，在这种历史中，社区有选择地参与更大的社会现象--例如交流网络和建筑传统--同时保持多样化的本地化做法。
Recent research at Jaketown, a Late Archaic earthwork site in the Lower Mississippi Valley, suggests that the culture-historical framework used to interpret Jaketown and contemporary sites in the region obscures differences in practices across sites. As an alternative, we propose a framework focused on variation in material culture, architecture, and foodways between Jaketown and Poverty Point, the regional type site. Our analysis indicates that people used Poverty Point Objects and imported lithics at Jaketown by 4525–4100 cal BP—earlier than elsewhere in the region. By 3450–3350 cal BP, people intensively occupied Jaketown, harvesting a consistent suite of wild plants. Between 3445 and 3270 cal BP, prior to the apex of earthwork construction at Poverty Point, the community at Jaketown built at least two earthworks and multiple post structures before catastrophic flooding sometime after 3300 cal BP buried the Late Archaic landscape under alluvium. These new data lead us to conclude that the archaeological record of the Late Archaic Lower Mississippi Valley does not reflect a uniform regional culture. Rather, relationships between Jaketown and Poverty Point indicate a multipolar history in which communities selectively participated in larger social phenomena—such as exchange networks and architectural traditions—while maintaining diverse, localized practices.