C Trevor Duke
Biographic Data
| ID | 113365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Trevor Duke |
| GIVEN NAMES | C Trevor |
| FAMILY NAME | Duke |
| SIGNATURE | DUKE C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8627-4867 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Secret Recipes
This article draws from multiple lines of evidence to highlight the role of technical knowledge and secrecy among migrant Mississippian (ca. AD 1000–1600) potting communities in Tampa Bay, Florida. We specifically present the results of compositional pottery analysis and radiocarbon modeling to argue for the emergence of a migrant-founded community of practice that safeguarded access to decorated pottery production. The chemical and petrographic …
Breaking the mold
Where Worlds Collide
Many anthropologists have now adopted a relational view of the culture concept. Much research has shown that, far from being bounded or self-replicating, cultures emerge through interactions between social Others. These findings are particularly important to research on borderlands and peripheries, where communities routinely encounter wide-ranging social and political diversity. We present ceramic frequencies alongside petrographic analysis from…
Sourcing Mississippian pottery among the complex maritime cultures of Florida’s peninsular Gulf coast
In eastern North America after ca. AD 1050, the spread of Mississippian cultures sparked widespread transformations to economy, material culture, political structure, and ideology. “Mississippianization” influenced the politically complex maritime polities of Florida’s peninsular Gulf coast, but the lack of maize agriculture indicates changes played out differently than among many inland polities. Mississippian-style pottery sherds deposited wide…
Sourcing ritual specialists in ancient Tampa Bay (AD 650-1550)
Functional and Stylistic Considerations of Mixed Grog- and Shell-Tempered Late Mississippian Pottery from the Nashville Basin
Mississippian period ceramic assemblages in the Nashville Basin region of Tennessee are traditionally viewed as being overwhelmingly shell tempered. Our petrographic analyses of 30 ceramic sherds from three Middle Cumberland sites have revealed, however, the presence of grog, or crushed potsherds, in shell-tempered pastes in over 40% of our specimens. In our study, serving vessels are often tempered with both shell and grog, with one bowl rim con…
Invisible Things Forgotten
Herbaceous wetland plant resources have been widely cultivated and utilized by Indigenous peoples throughout North America since at least the early Holocene. Archaeologists and ethnographers, along with traditional knowledge holders, have documented and reconstructed deep histories of interaction between human communities and coastal plants that provide dietary carbohydrates, medicinal compounds, and craft-fiber. On the Florida peninsula, as else…
Intensification revisited
Archaeologists typically associate resource intensification with population expansion, environmental change, and political strategizing. Many Late Woodland and Mississippian societies of the Southeast eschewed dietary diversity in favor of harvesting fewer types of resources that could meet the subsistence demands of incipient aggregation. Foods such as maize and shellfish can provide humans with predictable caloric yields and are amenable to con…
Sourcing ritual specialists in ancient Tampa Bay (AD 650-1550)
Intensification revisited
Archaeologists typically associate resource intensification with population expansion, environmental change, and political strategizing. Many Late Woodland and Mississippian societies of the Southeast eschewed dietary diversity in favor of harvesting fewer types of resources that could meet the subsistence demands of incipient aggregation. Foods such as maize and shellfish can provide humans with predictable caloric yields and are amenable to con…
Sourcing Mississippian pottery among the complex maritime cultures of Florida’s peninsular Gulf coast
In eastern North America after ca. AD 1050, the spread of Mississippian cultures sparked widespread transformations to economy, material culture, political structure, and ideology. “Mississippianization” influenced the politically complex maritime polities of Florida’s peninsular Gulf coast, but the lack of maize agriculture indicates changes played out differently than among many inland polities. Mississippian-style pottery sherds deposited wide…
Breaking the mold
Invisible Things Forgotten
Herbaceous wetland plant resources have been widely cultivated and utilized by Indigenous peoples throughout North America since at least the early Holocene. Archaeologists and ethnographers, along with traditional knowledge holders, have documented and reconstructed deep histories of interaction between human communities and coastal plants that provide dietary carbohydrates, medicinal compounds, and craft-fiber. On the Florida peninsula, as else…
Intensification revisited
Archaeologists typically associate resource intensification with population expansion, environmental change, and political strategizing. Many Late Woodland and Mississippian societies of the Southeast eschewed dietary diversity in favor of harvesting fewer types of resources that could meet the subsistence demands of incipient aggregation. Foods such as maize and shellfish can provide humans with predictable caloric yields and are amenable to con…
Functional and Stylistic Considerations of Mixed Grog- and Shell-Tempered Late Mississippian Pottery from the Nashville Basin
Mississippian period ceramic assemblages in the Nashville Basin region of Tennessee are traditionally viewed as being overwhelmingly shell tempered. Our petrographic analyses of 30 ceramic sherds from three Middle Cumberland sites have revealed, however, the presence of grog, or crushed potsherds, in shell-tempered pastes in over 40% of our specimens. In our study, serving vessels are often tempered with both shell and grog, with one bowl rim con…
Sourcing Mississippian pottery among the complex maritime cultures of Florida’s peninsular Gulf coast
In eastern North America after ca. AD 1050, the spread of Mississippian cultures sparked widespread transformations to economy, material culture, political structure, and ideology. “Mississippianization” influenced the politically complex maritime polities of Florida’s peninsular Gulf coast, but the lack of maize agriculture indicates changes played out differently than among many inland polities. Mississippian-style pottery sherds deposited wide…
Sourcing ritual specialists in ancient Tampa Bay (AD 650-1550)
Breaking the mold
Where Worlds Collide
Many anthropologists have now adopted a relational view of the culture concept. Much research has shown that, far from being bounded or self-replicating, cultures emerge through interactions between social Others. These findings are particularly important to research on borderlands and peripheries, where communities routinely encounter wide-ranging social and political diversity. We present ceramic frequencies alongside petrographic analysis from…
Secret Recipes
This article draws from multiple lines of evidence to highlight the role of technical knowledge and secrecy among migrant Mississippian (ca. AD 1000–1600) potting communities in Tampa Bay, Florida. We specifically present the results of compositional pottery analysis and radiocarbon modeling to argue for the emergence of a migrant-founded community of practice that safeguarded access to decorated pottery production. The chemical and petrographic …
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Pottery (6 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (4 works) · Geology (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works)