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Perspectives on the Archaeology of Pipes, Tobacco and other Smoke Plants in the Ancient Americas

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Editors:
  1. Elizabeth A. Bollwerk

    1. Department of Archaeology, Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., Charlottesville, USA

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  2. Shannon Tushingham

    1. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

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  • Expands the discussion of smoke plants beyond tobacco to provide a more holistic sense of what Native people smoked
  • Highlights a variety of new methods for identifying evidence of smoke plants
  • Discusses the route of Tobacco and it's introduction to the Americas
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology (IDCA)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Expanding Perspectives on the Archaeology of Pipes, Tobacco, and Other Smoke Plants in the Ancient Americas

    • Elizabeth A. Bollwerk, Shannon Tushingham
    Pages 1-11

  3. Smoking Pipes of Eastern North America

    • Sean M. Rafferty
    Pages 13-26

  4. Making Pipes and Social Persons at the Keffer Site: A Life History Approach

    • John L. Creese
    Pages 27-49

  5. An Examination of the Social Dynamics Behind Native Smoking Pipe Variation in the Late Woodland and Early Contact Period Middle Atlantic Region

    • Elizabeth A. Bollwerk
    Pages 51-76

  6. The Potential of Portable X-Ray Fluorescence for Understanding Trade and Exchange Dynamics in the Seventeenth Century Chesapeake: A Case Study Using Native American Tobacco Pipes from the James Fort Site, Virginia

    • Michael Ligman
    Pages 77-92

  7. Evolution of a Ritual: Pipes and Smoking in Etowah’s Realm

    • Dennis B. Blanton
    Pages 93-108

  8. Pipestone’s True Grit: Observations from Experimental Pipe-Making

    • Alison M. Hadley
    Pages 109-134

  9. Central Plains Tradition Smoking Pipes in the Glenwood Locality of Iowa: Within a Landscape of the Rising and Falling Sky

    • John Hedden
    Pages 135-155

  10. Aboriginal Use and Context of Pipes, Tobacco, and Smoking in Northwestern North America

    • Grant Keddie
    Pages 157-181

  11. Restoring Traditional Tobacco Knowledge: Health Implications and Risk Factors of Tobacco Use and Nicotine Addiction

    • Charles M. Snyder
    Pages 183-197

  12. History and Modern Use of Sacred Tobacco on the Central and Southern Oregon Coast

    • Patricia Whereat Phillips
    Pages 199-210

  13. Hunter-Gatherer Tobacco Smoking in Ancient North America: Current Chemical Evidence and a Framework for Future Studies

    • Shannon Tushingham, Jelmer W. Eerkens
    Pages 211-230

  14. Towards the Reconstruction of the Ritual Expressions of Societies of the Early Ceramic Period in Central Chile: Social and Cultural Contexts Associated with the Use of Smoking Pipes

    • María Teresa Planella, Carolina A. Belmar, Luciana D. Quiroz, Fernanda Falabella, Silvia K. Alfaro, Javier Echeverría et al.
    Pages 231-254

  15. Final Thoughts and Future Directions

    • Sean M. Rafferty
    Pages 255-259

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 261-267
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About this book

This volume presents the most recent archaeological, historical, and ethnographic research that challenges simplistic perceptions of Native smoking and explores a wide variety of questions regarding smoking plants and pipe forms from throughout North America and parts of South America. By broadening research questions, utilizing new analytical methods, and applying interdisciplinary interpretative frameworks, this volume offers new insights into a diverse array of perspectives on smoke plants and pipes.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Archaeology, Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., Charlottesville, USA

    Elizabeth A. Bollwerk

  • Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

    Shannon Tushingham

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Perspectives on the Archaeology of Pipes, Tobacco and other Smoke Plants in the Ancient Americas

  • Editors: Elizabeth A. Bollwerk, Shannon Tushingham

  • Series Title: Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23552-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-23551-6Published: 29 December 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79498-3Published: 30 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-23552-3Published: 20 December 2015

  • Series ISSN: 1568-2722

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-6984

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 267

  • Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 55 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Archaeology

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