A Hypothesis on the Origin of Northeastern American Pottery

Kehoe, Alice Β.

doi:10.1086/soutjanth.18.1.3629120

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“…Whether the Southeastern fiber-tempered vessels were Colombian-inspired or locally invented, a problem of long-standing has been their relationship to Woodland pottery of the northern part of the Eastern United States and southern Canada. Some of the first articles in this journal (Gjessing 1948;McKern 1937;Vickers 1945;Wintemberg 1942; see also, more recently, Kehoe 1962;Tolstoy 1953Tolstoy , 1958 had advanced the idea that cord-marked and fabric-marked Woodland pottery owed its origins to Asiatic or circumpolar diffusions. Its earliest American occurrences, however, have not been pushed back much in excess of 1000 B.C.…”

Section: Ceramic Origins and Diffusionsmentioning

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Some Continuing Problems in New World Culture History

Willey

1985

Am. antiq.

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To aid in the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Society for American Archaeology and its journal, American Antiquity, I was invited to address myself to “Unsolved Problems in New World Culture History.” I have agreed to do this, but, with the editor's indulgence, I would like to rephrase the title as I have, for I think that the word “continuing” more accurately captures the sense of the situation and where our interests lie. As all of us are aware, there are many unsolved problems in Precolumbian culture history—“more holes than cheese,” as the saying goes—but I think I should take a look at some of those with which we are most familiar.

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Section: Ceramic Origins and Diffusionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Some Continuing Problems in New World Culture History

Willey

1985

Am. antiq.

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“…And if Scandinavian contact to the east can be ruled out, we can also state that the evidence for trans-Atlantic connections are almost totally lacking in support. The Kehoe (1963Kehoe ( , 1971 and Ridley (i960) hypotheses have so many flaws that are apparent today as to be totally untenable. Recent research in Newfoundland and Labrador has failed to reveal the Atlantic bridgehead of ceramic introduction, and possibility of a northwestern route through Canada has been all but discarded.…”

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Ground Slates in the Scandinavian Younger Stone Age with Reference to Circumpolar Maritime Adaptations

Fitzhugh

1974

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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Circumpolar culture theory has been a persistent unifying theme in northern anthropology, playing a formative role in the development of general anthropological theory and stimulating numerous archaeological and ethnological studies of high latitude regions. One of the most important contributions to this field was Gutorm Gjessing's Circumpolar Stone Age (1944). Today this work is known as a timely synthesis in which ethnological and archaeological data were marshalled in support of an hypothesis of northern diffusion through the Arctic and Taiga zones from Scandinavia to northeastern North America. The principal elements in this proposed diffusion chain included toggling harpoons, large skin boats, oil lamps, ulu-type knives, ground slate tools, the curved-back adze or gouge, and cord-marked pottery. Later additions to this circumpolar adaptive complex included parallels in social structure, religion, and mythology (Gjessing 1953; Nordland 1968).

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“…More recently transatlantic migrations, from Europe and Africa were suggested by Kehoe (1962;, Greenmam (1963), Alcina-Franch (1969) and Kennedy (1971). Laming-Emperaire (1980) stated that these contacts may be dated from 20,000 years.…”

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