William Sears
Biographic Data
| ID | 146200 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Sears |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Sears |
| SIGNATURE | SEARS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Museum of Natural History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0681-1440 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Nonverbal Thought in Technology
Bahamas Prehistory
A program of surveys and test excavations has located 53 prehistoric open midden sites in the Bahamas and procured a large artifact sample from them. Sites in the central Bahamas, concentrated in the eastern islands of the area, are characterized by the shell-tempered Palmetto Series pottery. While sharing specific modes with Antillean cultures, it is an indigenous development, originating in the Caicos where the earliest sites have only ceramics…
Archeology and Prehistory
Papers in Caribbean Anthropology
Papers in Caribbean Anthropolgoy
The State in Certain Areas and Periods of the Prehistoric Southeastern United States
There are, in southeastern United States, a number of definable prehistoric culture areas with reasonably clear-cut spatial and temporal limits. Certain of these have one distinctive ceremonial center, and evidence in it for the existence of a class of persons who appear to have been members of a specific, upper, social class. problem here is to determine the significance of this data in terms of the existence and nature of a form or forms of the…
Hopewellian Affiliations of Certain Sites on the Gulf Coast of Florida
The Hopewellian Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture, on the Florida Gulf Coast, includes seven or more burial mounds. Analysis of the individual complexes demonstrates that these mounds occupy points on a cultural continuum, with some clustering into two mortuary or ceremonial complexes. The earlier Yent complex, with the Pierce, Crystal River, and Yent mounds is in the Deptford time period. Some of the pottery has Tchefuncte characteristics, and ther…
An Investigation of the Darby and Hornsby Springs Sites, Alachua County, Florida
Selected Papers from the American Anthropologist, 1888-1930
The Study of Social and Religious Systems in North American Archaeology
Ceramic Systems and Eastern Archaeology
The system of ceramic taxonomy presented by Phillips for use in the Southeast is considered to be too formal and rigid. While it attempts to serve the same functions as the currently used concepts of type and variety, the proposed new system would be considerably more complex in its application. The ceramic type, as currently defined and used, is well adapted for establishing skeletal chronicle. Any modification would lessen its usefulness. A gre…
Burial Mounds on the Gulf Coastal Plain
Burial mounds, with their contained structures, artifacts, burials, and the patterns of relationship between these concrete items, represent the largest recoverable body of data in the eastern United States which bears directly on problems concerned with prehistoric religion and ceremonialism. These data in turn are directly applicable, with varying levels of reliability, to problems of prehistoric social and political structure. This is possible…
Creek and Cherokee Culture in the 18th Century
Excavations, not yet reported in detail, at sites adequately documented as having been occupied during the 18th century make it possible to outline Creek and Cherokee cultures of this period. A comparison of the outlines indicates similarities and differences which may be of some importance in the archaeology of the area in which the Cherokee and various 'Creek' groups were the dominant cultures in the contact and early historic periods, namely, …
The Sociopolitical Organization of Pre-Columbian Cultures on the Gulf Coastal Plain
Space and Time Perspective in Northern St. Johns Archaeology. John M. Goggin
Kolomoki Burial Mounds and the Weeden Island Mortuary Complex
Kolomoki is about six miles from the Chattahoochee River, in extreme southwestern Georgia. One of the larger southeastern sites, it covers approximately three hundred acres, including a rectangular truncated pyramidal temple mound 56 feet high, a plaza about 40 acres in extent, and 7 dome shaped mounds ranging in height from 4 to 20 feet. Three of the latter mounds have been excavated, two of which, D and E, were burial mounds and supplied parts …
Ceramic Development in the South Appalachian Province
Preliminary Report on the Excavation of an Etowah Valley Site
The Wilbanks site, 9CK-5, is located in the Etowah Valley, north Georgia, about fifteen miles upstream from the famous Etowah site excavated by Moorehead (1932). Excavations here have produced one structure and three superimposed refuse deposits yielding a ceramic sequence contemporaneous with middle through late Mississippi.Robert Wauchope (1948, p. 205) tested the site for the University of Georgia some years ago with a single trench into a mou…
The Archaic Horizon in Western Tennessee. Thomas N. M. Lewis and Madeline Kneberg. Tennessee Anthropology Papers, No. 2. Knoxville, 1947
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What is the Archaic
Since its inception by Ritchie1 the term 'The Archaic,' or 'The Archaic Pattern,' has seen considerable usage. However, it appears that the definition or delineation of this pattern, as it exists, is not serviceable. If this be true, there is then an anomalous situation in that: (1) Manifestations which have been classified by Webb and Dejarnette, Webb and Haag, Fairbanks, and Lewis and Kneberg, as components or foci of the Archaic, are thereby c…
The Study of Social and Religious Systems in North American Archaeology
Bahamas Prehistory
A program of surveys and test excavations has located 53 prehistoric open midden sites in the Bahamas and procured a large artifact sample from them. Sites in the central Bahamas, concentrated in the eastern islands of the area, are characterized by the shell-tempered Palmetto Series pottery. While sharing specific modes with Antillean cultures, it is an indigenous development, originating in the Caicos where the earliest sites have only ceramics…
Hopewellian Affiliations of Certain Sites on the Gulf Coast of Florida
The Hopewellian Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture, on the Florida Gulf Coast, includes seven or more burial mounds. Analysis of the individual complexes demonstrates that these mounds occupy points on a cultural continuum, with some clustering into two mortuary or ceremonial complexes. The earlier Yent complex, with the Pierce, Crystal River, and Yent mounds is in the Deptford time period. Some of the pottery has Tchefuncte characteristics, and ther…
Ceramic Systems and Eastern Archaeology
The system of ceramic taxonomy presented by Phillips for use in the Southeast is considered to be too formal and rigid. While it attempts to serve the same functions as the currently used concepts of type and variety, the proposed new system would be considerably more complex in its application. The ceramic type, as currently defined and used, is well adapted for establishing skeletal chronicle. Any modification would lessen its usefulness. A gre…
Ceramic Development in the South Appalachian Province
The Sociopolitical Organization of Pre-Columbian Cultures on the Gulf Coastal Plain
Burial Mounds on the Gulf Coastal Plain
Burial mounds, with their contained structures, artifacts, burials, and the patterns of relationship between these concrete items, represent the largest recoverable body of data in the eastern United States which bears directly on problems concerned with prehistoric religion and ceremonialism. These data in turn are directly applicable, with varying levels of reliability, to problems of prehistoric social and political structure. This is possible…
Selected Papers from the American Anthropologist, 1888-1930
What is the Archaic
Since its inception by Ritchie1 the term 'The Archaic,' or 'The Archaic Pattern,' has seen considerable usage. However, it appears that the definition or delineation of this pattern, as it exists, is not serviceable. If this be true, there is then an anomalous situation in that: (1) Manifestations which have been classified by Webb and Dejarnette, Webb and Haag, Fairbanks, and Lewis and Kneberg, as components or foci of the Archaic, are thereby c…
An Investigation of the Darby and Hornsby Springs Sites, Alachua County, Florida
Preliminary Report on the Excavation of an Etowah Valley Site
The Wilbanks site, 9CK-5, is located in the Etowah Valley, north Georgia, about fifteen miles upstream from the famous Etowah site excavated by Moorehead (1932). Excavations here have produced one structure and three superimposed refuse deposits yielding a ceramic sequence contemporaneous with middle through late Mississippi.Robert Wauchope (1948, p. 205) tested the site for the University of Georgia some years ago with a single trench into a mou…
The Archaic Horizon in Western Tennessee. Thomas N. M. Lewis and Madeline Kneberg. Tennessee Anthropology Papers, No. 2. Knoxville, 1947
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
What is the Archaic
Since its inception by Ritchie1 the term 'The Archaic,' or 'The Archaic Pattern,' has seen considerable usage. However, it appears that the definition or delineation of this pattern, as it exists, is not serviceable. If this be true, there is then an anomalous situation in that: (1) Manifestations which have been classified by Webb and Dejarnette, Webb and Haag, Fairbanks, and Lewis and Kneberg, as components or foci of the Archaic, are thereby c…
Preliminary Report on the Excavation of an Etowah Valley Site
The Wilbanks site, 9CK-5, is located in the Etowah Valley, north Georgia, about fifteen miles upstream from the famous Etowah site excavated by Moorehead (1932). Excavations here have produced one structure and three superimposed refuse deposits yielding a ceramic sequence contemporaneous with middle through late Mississippi.Robert Wauchope (1948, p. 205) tested the site for the University of Georgia some years ago with a single trench into a mou…
Ceramic Development in the South Appalachian Province
Space and Time Perspective in Northern St. Johns Archaeology. John M. Goggin
Kolomoki Burial Mounds and the Weeden Island Mortuary Complex
Kolomoki is about six miles from the Chattahoochee River, in extreme southwestern Georgia. One of the larger southeastern sites, it covers approximately three hundred acres, including a rectangular truncated pyramidal temple mound 56 feet high, a plaza about 40 acres in extent, and 7 dome shaped mounds ranging in height from 4 to 20 feet. Three of the latter mounds have been excavated, two of which, D and E, were burial mounds and supplied parts …
The Sociopolitical Organization of Pre-Columbian Cultures on the Gulf Coastal Plain
Creek and Cherokee Culture in the 18th Century
Excavations, not yet reported in detail, at sites adequately documented as having been occupied during the 18th century make it possible to outline Creek and Cherokee cultures of this period. A comparison of the outlines indicates similarities and differences which may be of some importance in the archaeology of the area in which the Cherokee and various 'Creek' groups were the dominant cultures in the contact and early historic periods, namely, …
Burial Mounds on the Gulf Coastal Plain
Burial mounds, with their contained structures, artifacts, burials, and the patterns of relationship between these concrete items, represent the largest recoverable body of data in the eastern United States which bears directly on problems concerned with prehistoric religion and ceremonialism. These data in turn are directly applicable, with varying levels of reliability, to problems of prehistoric social and political structure. This is possible…
Ceramic Systems and Eastern Archaeology
The system of ceramic taxonomy presented by Phillips for use in the Southeast is considered to be too formal and rigid. While it attempts to serve the same functions as the currently used concepts of type and variety, the proposed new system would be considerably more complex in its application. The ceramic type, as currently defined and used, is well adapted for establishing skeletal chronicle. Any modification would lessen its usefulness. A gre…
An Investigation of the Darby and Hornsby Springs Sites, Alachua County, Florida
Selected Papers from the American Anthropologist, 1888-1930
The Study of Social and Religious Systems in North American Archaeology
Papers in Caribbean Anthropology
Papers in Caribbean Anthropolgoy
The State in Certain Areas and Periods of the Prehistoric Southeastern United States
There are, in southeastern United States, a number of definable prehistoric culture areas with reasonably clear-cut spatial and temporal limits. Certain of these have one distinctive ceremonial center, and evidence in it for the existence of a class of persons who appear to have been members of a specific, upper, social class. problem here is to determine the significance of this data in terms of the existence and nature of a form or forms of the…
Hopewellian Affiliations of Certain Sites on the Gulf Coast of Florida
The Hopewellian Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture, on the Florida Gulf Coast, includes seven or more burial mounds. Analysis of the individual complexes demonstrates that these mounds occupy points on a cultural continuum, with some clustering into two mortuary or ceremonial complexes. The earlier Yent complex, with the Pierce, Crystal River, and Yent mounds is in the Deptford time period. Some of the pottery has Tchefuncte characteristics, and ther…
Archeology and Prehistory
Nonverbal Thought in Technology
Bahamas Prehistory
A program of surveys and test excavations has located 53 prehistoric open midden sites in the Bahamas and procured a large artifact sample from them. Sites in the central Bahamas, concentrated in the eastern islands of the area, are characterized by the shell-tempered Palmetto Series pottery. While sharing specific modes with Antillean cultures, it is an indigenous development, originating in the Caicos where the earliest sites have only ceramics…
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