Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Section I: Intrasite Structure and Formation Processes -- 1. Formation Processes for the Practical Prehistorian: An Example from the Southeast -- 2. The Form, Function, and Formation of Garbage-filled Pits on Southeastern Aboriginal Sites: An Archaeobotanical Analysis -- 3. Feature Zones and Feature Fill: More Than Trash -- 4. Social Implications of Storage and Disposal Patterns -- 5. The Form and Function of South Carolina's Early Woodland Shell Rings -- 6. A New Way of Looking at Old Holes: Methods for Excavating and Interpreting Timber Structures -- Section II: Intersite Comparisons and Regional Chronology -- 7. Archaeology and the Archaic Period in the Southern Ridge-and-Valley Province -- 8. Intersite Assemblage Variability in the Lower Little Tennessee River Valley: Exploring Extinct Settlement Systems Through Probabilistic Sampling -- 9. Lithic Scatters in the South Carolina Piedmont -- 10. Tradition and Typology: Basic Elements of the Carolina Projectile Point Sequence -- 11. Model and Sequence in the Maryland Archaic -- 12. Spheres of Cultural Interaction across the Coastal Plain of Virginia in the Woodland Period -- 13. Early Hopewellian Ceremonial Encampments in the South Appalachian Highlands -- 14. Deep Water and High Ground: Seventeenth-Century Settlement Patterns on the Carolina Coast -- Epilogue: Joffre Lanning Coe: The Quiet Giant of Southeastern Archaeology -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.