Resituating the Hand site (44SN22)

A collections-based reassessment of a Woodland principal town in Southeastern Virginia

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ID10228695
AuthorsTaylor B Callaway (0000-0002-2030-7945, William & Mary, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume46
Issue1
Pages3-31
Publication date2024-06-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNorth American Archaeologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0197-6931 • E-ISSN: 1541-3543
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/01976931241258982
OpenAlexW4399358439
LanguageEN
References cited14

This paper describes the results of a multi-year reassessment of the Hand site (44SN0022) archeological collection. The Hand site, located on the Nottoway River in southeastern Virginia, was intensively excavated in the 1960s, revealing a complex Native American settlement at least three and a half acres in size. While prior researchers emphasized the site's ties to colonial actors and suggested the site's primary occupation dated to the turn of the seventeenth century, this reexamination instead demonstrates the site's primary components date to the Middle Woodland II (800–900 CE) and the Late Woodland (1200–1300 CE). Rather than a place of colonial encounter, this paper suggests the Hand site is better understood as a prominent Middle to Late Woodland principal town, where domestic and civic-ceremonial life regularly intersected

Archaeology · Biology · Geography · Principal (computer security · Woodland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Ecology

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