Recent Publications

 

Listed below are a few of my recent publications, with links to pdfs or (in the case of books) to web sites where they may be purchased.  For my complete vita in pdf format, follow the “C.V.”  link at left.

 

Pluckhahn, Thomas J. 

2007    Reflections on Paddle Stamped Pottery: Symmetry Analysis of Swift Creek Paddle Designs from Kolomoki.  Southeastern Archaeology, in press.

 

Pluckhahn, Thomas J.

2007    Archaeological Investigations in Spiro’s Hinterlands: Testing of the Lee Creek Ceremonial Site (34SQ12), Sequoyah County, Oklahoma.  Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma. Prepared for the Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City.

 

Pluckhahn, Thomas J., J. Matthew Compton, and Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund

2006    Archaeological Correlates of Small-Scale Feasting: Evidence from the Woodland Period Site of Kolomoki in Georgia.  Journal of Field Archaeology 31(3):263-284.

 

Pluckhahn, Thomas J., Robbie F. Ethridge, Jerald T. Milanich, and Marvin T. Smith

2006    Introduction.  In Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians, edited by Thomas J. Pluckhahn and Robbie F. Ethridge, pp 1-25.  University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

 

Pluckhahn, Thomas J.

2003    Kolomoki: Settlement, Ceremony, and Status in the Deep South, ca. 350 to 750 A.D.  University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

 

 

Working Papers

 

Listed below are a few recent conference papers that I am currently preparing for publication or which are under review.  Feel free to send me comments on them, but please don’t cite without permission.

 

 

Pluckhahn, Thomas J.

2006    The Sacred and the Secular Revisited: The Essential Tensions of Early Village Societies in the Southeastern U.S.  Invited paper presented in the symposium “Early Village Societies in Global Perspective,”organized by Matthew Bandy and Jake Fox, for the Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico and for the Amerind Foundation, Dragoon, Arizona.

 

            Pluckhahn, Thomas J.

            2007    The Use and Abuse of Ethnographic Analogy to Describe Complexity: A Case Study of Kolomoki and the Middle Woodland Period in the Deep South.  Invited paper presented in the symposium “Considering Complexity: Confounding Categories with Practice” organized by Susan Alt, for the Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas.