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North Carolina Archaeology, Vol. 54 North Carolina Archaeology Volume 54 2005 North Carolina Archaeology (formerly Southern Indian Studies) Published jointly by The North Carolina Archaeological Society, Inc. 109 East Jones Street Raleigh, NC 27601-2807 and The Research Laboratories of Archaeology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3120 R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr., Editor Officers of the North Carolina Archaeological Society President: Tom Oakes, 113 Perkins Lane, Coinjock, NC 27923. Vice President: Terri Russ, P.O. Box 81, Hillsborough, NC 27278. Secretary: Linda Carnes-McNaughton, Dept of the Army, Public Works Business Center (AFZA-PW-E) (Carnes), Fort Bragg Garrison Command (ABN), Installation Management Agency, Fort Bragg, NC 28310. Treasurer: E. William Conen, 804 Kingswood Dr., Cary, NC 27513. Editor: R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr., Research Laboratories of Archaeology, CB 3120, Alumni Building, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3120. Associate Editor (Newsletter): Dee Nelms, Office of State Archaeology, N.C. Division of Archives and History, 4619 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4619. At-Large Members: Jeff Irwin, Dept of the Army, Public Works Business Center (AFZA-PW-E) (Irwin), Fort Bragg Garrison Command (ABN), Installation Management Agency, Fort Bragg, NC 28310. Matt Jorgenson, 2908 Golden Oak Court, Raleigh, NC 27603. Paul Mohler, Archaeology Unit, N.C. Department of Transportation, 1583 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1583. Brian Overton, Archaeology Unit, N.C. Department of Transportation, 1583 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1583. Archie Smith, Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site, 509 Town Creek Mound Road, Mt. Gilead, NC 27306. Ruth Wetmore, 110 Tree Haven, Brevard, NC 28712. Information for Subscribers North Carolina Archaeology is published once a year in October. Subscription is by membership in the North Carolina Archaeological Society, Inc. Annual dues are $15.00 for regular members, $25.00 for sustaining members, $10.00 for students, $20.00 for families, $250.00 for life members, $250.00 for corporate members, and $25.00 for institutional subscribers. Members also receive two issues of the North Carolina Archaeological Society Newsletter. Membership requests, dues, subscriptions, changes of address, and back issue orders should be directed to: Dee Nelms, Office of State Archaeology, N.C. Division of Archives and History, 4619 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4619. Information for Authors North Carolina Archaeology publishes articles on the archaeology of North Carolina and neighboring states. One copy of each manuscript, with accompanying tables, figures, and bibliography, should be submitted to the Editor. Manuscripts should be double spaced with ample margins throughout. Style should conform to guidelines published in American Antiquity, vol. 57, no. 4 (October, 1992) (see also http://www.saa.org/Publications/Styleguide/styframe.html). The Editor can assist those wishing to submit a manuscript but who are unfamiliar with American Antiquity style. North Carolina Archaeology Volume 54 October 2005 CONTENTS Spatial and Temporal Patterning in the Distribution of North Carolina Projectile Points Theresa E. McReynolds................................................................................... 1 Lost Charles Towne: Local Manifestation of World Events Thomas C. Loftfield......................................................................................... 34 Het Regent Pijpestelen at Brunswick Town: A Quantitative Analysis of White Clay Tobacco Pipes and Smoking Behaviors in Colonial North Carolina Thomas E. Beaman, Jr. ................................................................................... 49 Colonoware and the Context for the Development of a Creolized Slave Culture at Hope Plantation, Bertie County, North Carolina Andrew D. Madsen......................................................................................... 100 Book Review The Man Who Found Thoreau: Roland W. Robbins and the Rise of Historical Archaeological in America, by Donald W. Linebaugh Thomas E. Beaman, Jr. .................................................................................. 136 About the Authors........................................................................................ 142 SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNING IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF NORTH CAROLINA PROJECTILE POINTS by Theresa E. McReynolds Abstract This study investigates the spatial and temporal distribution of 35,079 Archaic and Woodland period projectile points recovered from surface contexts in North Carolina. Preliminary analyses suggest that these projectile point data can reveal important insights into Archaic and Woodland settlement adaptations for much of the state. Patterning in the distribution of projectile points by cultural period and physiographic region indicates that the Piedmont was more heavily exploited than the Mountains or Coastal Plain throughout prehistory. The mapped distribution of projectile points also exposes apparent fluctuations in population levels, preferences for specific raw material types, and patterns in regional and interregional interaction. However, several analyses indicate that projectile point data may be an inappropriate basis for predicting prehistoric occupation in the North Carolina Coastal Plain. Archaeologists have long relied upon distinctive projectile points as chronological and cultural markers. More recent theoretical and methodological developments in lithic analysis have expanded the ways in which archaeologists bring projectile points to bear on human behavior. Most contemporary archaeologists working with Southeastern lithic assemblages regard the spatial distribution of projectile points and other stone tools as material manifestations of the organized use of ancient landscapes (Daniel 1998:144). As a result, they conduct projectile point distribution analyses as a means of revealing the nature of prehistoric land use and adaptations. Not surprisingly, the majority of innovative projectile point analyses have been conducted in the context of Paleoindian (11,500–10,000 BP) and Early Archaic (10,000–8,000 BP) research, for which surface- collected stone tools are the most common form of archaeological evidence. On the basis of regional, state, and local distribution studies of Paleoindian and Early Archaic projectile points, archaeologists have proposed various models for the initial colonization of the Southeast, 1 NORTH CAROLINA ARCHAEOLOGY [Vol. 54, 2005] subsequent adaptations to the landscape, changes in mobility patterns and population distribution, the emergence of regional and subregional cultural traditions, and patterns of interregional interaction (e.g., Anderson 1990, 1991, 1995; Anderson and Faught 1998, 2000; Anderson et al. 1997; Anderson and Hanson 1988; Blanton and Sassaman 1989; Daniel 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001; Dunbar 1991; Dunbar and Waller 1983; Gillam 1996; Goodyear et al. 1989; Lepper and Meltzer 1991; McGahey 1987). In contrast, comparatively few regional projectile point distribution studies have been conducted for later cultural periods. This is understandable in that alternative types of archaeological evidence become increasingly common beginning with the Middle Archaic. Moreover, the sheer magnitude of projectile points from the Middle and Late Archaic periods makes intensive analysis at the regional level a daunting task requiring collaborative efforts. Nevertheless, surface collections of diagnostic Middle and Late Archaic and Woodland projectile points are potentially valuable sources of evidence for human landscape use and should be subjected to distribution analyses. This paper summarizes the results of an exploratory distribution analysis of a large sample of Archaic and Woodland projectile points from North Carolina. I identify patterns in the spatial and temporal distribution of projectile points with respect to physiographic provinces and raw material types. Projectile Point Distribution Studies in North Carolina I. Randolph Daniel, Jr. (1997, 1998, 2000, 2001) has examined the distribution of Paleoindian and Early Archaic lithic artifacts from North Carolina. Daniel’s surveys provide models for the design of the present study, and his conclusions regarding Paleoindian and Early Archaic settlement adaptation form part of the contextual background within which all later Archaic and Woodland distribution evidence must be viewed. Paleoindians in North Carolina Daniel’s Paleoindian survey (1997, 2000, 2001) investigated the statewide distribution of 212 fluted and lanceolate bifaces from private and institutional collections. Daniel grouped these data by county and searched for patterns with respect to physiographic region (i.e., Mountains, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain), raw material, and projectile 2 NORTH CAROLINA PROJECTILE POINTS point type. Although Paleoindian projectile points occur in all three physiographic provinces of North Carolina, Daniel concludes that there are significant differences in the frequencies with which they occur. He notes that projectile point frequency in the Coastal Plain is lower than would be expected solely on the basis of the region’s size, while frequencies in the Mountains and Piedmont are higher than expected (Daniel 2001:2). In particular, projectile points appear to be most heavily concentrated in the eastern Piedmont and along the Fall Line (Daniel 1997:3, 2000:14). On the other hand, they are noticeably absent in the central and southern Coastal Plain as well as in the area separating the
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