Date Thesis Awarded

4-2016

Access Type

Honors Thesis -- Access Restricted On-Campus Only

Degree Name

Bachelors of Arts (BA)

Department

Anthropology

Advisor

Martin Gallivan

Committee Members

Frederick Smith

Maria Swetnam-Burland

Bruce Larson

Abstract

The following paper details an analysis of archaeological materials recovered from a Native site in Tidewater Virginia. The project builds on and contributes to an ongoing effort to investigate the historical ecology of Virginia Algonquian communities who dwelled at Kiskiak, a town located along the York River that was once a political center in the Powhatan chiefdom. The primary goals of this research are twofold: to develop a tool for constructing chronology for the Kiskiak locale and to use this method as the basis for examining the interplay between settlement intensity and changing environmental conditions during the Woodland Period.

Recommended Citation

Richmond, Leanna Grace, "Merging Social and Natural Histories at Kiskiak: A Historical Ecology Study" (2016). Undergraduate Honors Theses. William & Mary. Paper 973.
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/honorstheses/973