Please join us for our next speaker and meeting
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January 8, 2025, 7pm
Dr. Carole Nash, JMU and Mountain Valley Archaeology
The Roots of Coalescence: Emerging Middle Woodland Exchange Networks in Western Virginia
The visibility of Late Woodland communities of coalescence reflecting population movements into Western Virginia belies the roots of earlier, sustained interaction, expressed through Middle Woodland exchange networks and manifest in material culture and mortuary practices. A millennium prior to the appearance of nucleated and, later, palisaded villages that are interpreted as indicators of multicultural settlements, exchange networks encompassing much of the Chesapeake watershed and adjacent regions were already activated. This evidence, along with the geographic distribution of the Middle Woodland stone burial mound tradition,supports coalescence as an extended process of crossing cultural boundaries in a region of isolated proximity.
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