Research Laboratories of Archaeology


Project Archaeology: Selected Readings


North Carolina Archaeology

Coe, Joffre L. 1964. The Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedmont. Transactions 54(5). Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.

Coe, Joffre L. 1995. Town Creek Indian Mound: A Native American Legacy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Daniel, I. Randolph. 1998. Hardaway Revisited: Early Archaic Settlement in the Southeast. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Davis, R. P. Stephen, Jr., Patrick C. Livingood, H. Trawick Ward, and Vincas P. Steponaitis, eds. 1998. Excavating Occaneechi Town: Archaeology of an Eighteenth-Century Indian Village in North Carolina. CD-ROM. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Dickens, Roy S., Jr. 1976. Cherokee Prehistory: The Pisgah Phase in the Appalachian Summit Region. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Keel, Bennie C. 1976. Cherokee Archaeology: A Study of the Appalachian Summit. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Mathis, Mark A., and Jeffrey J. Crow, eds. 1983. The Prehistory of North Carolina: An Archaeological Symposium. Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Archives and History.

Ward, H. Trawick, and R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr. 1999. Time Before History: The Archaeology of North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Ward, Trawick, and R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr. 1993. Indian Communities on the North Carolina Piedmont, AD 1000 to 1700. Monograph Series 2. Chapel Hill: Research Laboratories of Anthropology, University of North Carolina.
 

North Carolina Indians

Boyce, Douglas W. 1978. "Iroquoian Tribes of the Virginia--North Carolina Coastal Plain." In Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 15, Northeast, edited by Bruce Trigger, pp. 282-289. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.

Dial, Adolf L. 1993. The Lumbee. New York: Chelsea House.

Feest, Christian F. 1978. "North Carolina Algonquians." In Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 15, Northeast, edited by Bruce Trigger, pp. 271-281. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution.

Hulton, Paul. 1984. America 1585: The Complete Drawings of John White. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Lawson, John. 1967 [orig. 1709]. A New Voyage to Carolina, edited by Hugh Talmage Lefler. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Lerch, Patricia Barker. 1992. "State-Recognized Indians of North Carolina, Including a History of the Waccamaw Sioux." In Indians of the Southeastern United States in the Late 20th Century, edited by J. Anthony Paredes, pp. 44-71. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.

Merrell, James H. 1989. The Catawbas. New York: Chelsea House.

Perdue, Theda. 1985. Native Carolinians: The Indians of North Carolina. Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Archives and History.

Perdue, Theda. 1989. The Cherokee. New York: Chelsea House.

Quinn, David Beers, ed. 1991. The Roanoke Voyages: 1584-1590. 2 vols. Reprint of 1955 edition published by the Hakluyt Society, London. New York: Dover.

Rights, Douglas L. 1988 [orig. 1947]. The American Indian in North Carolina. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair.

Ross, Thomas E. 1999. American Indians in North Carolina: Geographic Interpretations. Southern Pines, N.C.: Karo Hollow Press.

South, Stanley A. 1959. Indians in North Carolina. Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Archives and History.

Wetmore, Ruth Y. 1975. First on the Land: The North Carolina Indians. Winston-Salem, N.C.: John F. Blair.
 

Archaeology and Indians of Neighboring States

Bense, Judith A. 1994. Archaeology of the Southeastern United States: Paleoindian to World War I. San Diego: Academic Press.

Chapman, Jefferson. 1994. Tellico Archaeology: 12,000 Years of Native American History. Revised ed. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Culberson, Linda Crawford. 1993. Arrowheads and Spear Points in the Prehistoric Southeast. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

Egloff, Keith, and Deborah Woodward. 1992. First People: The Early Indians of Virginia. Richmond: Virginia Department of Historic Resources.

Goodyear, Albert C., III, and Glen T. Hanson. 1989. Studies in South Carolina Archaeology. Anthropological Studies 9. Columbia: South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina.

Goodyear, Albert C., III, James L. Michie, and Tommy Charles. 1990. The Earliest South Carolinians: The Paleoindian Occupation of South Carolina. Occasional Papers 2. Columbia: Archaeological Society of South Carolina.

Hudson, Charles. 1976. The Southeastern Indians. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.

Justice, Noel D.1987. Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Midcontinental and Eastern United States: A Modern Survey and Reference. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

O'Connor, Mallory McCane. 1995. Lost Cities of the Ancient Southeast. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
 

General Sources on Archaeology

Deetz, James. 1967. Invitation to Archaeology. Garden City, N.Y.: Natural History Press.

Joukowsky, Martha. 1980. A Complete Manual of Field Archaeology: Tools and Techniques of Field Work for Archaeologists. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall.

Fagan, Brian M. 1978. In the Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeology. 3rd ed. Boston: Little Brown.

Stuart, George E., and Francis P. McManamon. 1996. Archaeology and You. Washington, D.C.: Society for American Archaeology.

Thomas, David Hurst. 1994. Exploring Ancient Native America. New York: Macmillan.
 

Suitable for Young Readers

Claro, Nicole. 1992. The Cherokee Indians. New York: Chelsea House.

Dickens, Roy S., Jr., and James L. McKinley. 1979. Frontiers in the Soil: The Archaeology of Georgia. LaGrange, Ga.: Frontiers Publishing.

Edmonds, Susan. 1993. Native Peoples of North America: Diversity and Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hackwell, W. John. 1986. Digging to the Past: Excavations in Ancient Lands. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

Henderson, A. Gwynn. 1992. Kentuckians Before Boone. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

James, Carollyn. 1990. Digging up the Past. New York: Franklin Watts.

Lepthien, Emilie U. 1985. The Cherokee. Chicago: Childrens Press.

Potter, Eloise F., and John B. Funderburg. 1986. Native Americans: The People and How They Lived. Raleigh: North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences.

Roop, Peter, and Connie Roop. 1998. If You Lived with the Cherokee. New York: Scholastic.

Samford, Patricia, and David Ribblett. 1995. Archaeology for Young Explorers: Uncovering History at Colonial Williamsburg. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Stein, R. Conrad. 1993. The Trail of Tears. Chicago: Childrens Press.


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