Little Bangs on the Tombigbee: Chronologies of Emergence

dc.contributor.authorCharles R. Cobb
dc.contributor.authorAnthony M. Krus
dc.contributor.authorEdmond A. Boudreaux
dc.contributor.authorBrad R. Lieb
dc.contributor.authorDomenique C. Sorresso
dc.contributor.authorJohn H. Blitz
dc.coverage.spatialBolivia
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-22T19:52:14Z
dc.date.available2026-03-22T19:52:14Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractAbstract The notions of “emergence” and “becoming” have become widely adopted in relational studies in archaeology, but their definition and application remain nebulous. We advocate a middle-range approach to the incorporation of these related concepts into the study of migration and pronounced cultural shifts. Our study relies on the Bayesian modeling of a significant corpus of radiocarbon dates from Mississippian sites in the Tombigbee Valley of southeastern North America. This investigation has identified the likelihood of two broad migration episodes that we hypothesize are related to cultural rephrasings of landscape and temporality.
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/aaq.2025.27
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2025.27
dc.identifier.urihttps://andeanlibrary.org/handle/123456789/78612
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.relation.ispartofAmerican Antiquity
dc.sourceUniversity of Florida
dc.subjectRadiocarbon dating
dc.subjectHistory
dc.subjectGeography
dc.subjectBayesian probability
dc.subjectArchaeology
dc.subjectAnthropology
dc.titleLittle Bangs on the Tombigbee: Chronologies of Emergence
dc.typearticle

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