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Title
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Chronology and acculturation in the Choctaw Homeland, 1650-1850
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Date
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2016
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Bibliographic Citation
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Hayes, Marcus. 2016. Chronology and acculturation in the Choctaw homeland, 1650-1850. Unpublished MA thesis submitted to the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies. Mississippi State University, Starkville.
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• Seriation of ceramics from the North American Coal survey area, Kemper and Lauderdale Counties, Mississippi.
• “Acculturation began in the mid-18th century, as indicated by small numbers of European gunflints, beads, and glass scrapers found at Choctaw sites. The three divisions of the Choctaw confederacy [sic] used different decorations in the 17th and 18th centuries; combing became the main decorative treatment everywhere in the Choctaw homeland by ca. 1780.”
• Based primarily on surface finishes, includes some temper, and then European artifacts and conforms to Blitz’s 1995 work.
• Establishment of four trading posts in the Choctaw homeland in 1720s led to further interactions with European material goods (“acculturation” in the text).
• This is still a largely “colonial” discussion of Choctaw culture and history, particularly evidenced by the “genesis” of Choctaw in 1650 statement in the conclusions.