In this major, highly illustrated, new study Tim Perttula explores the cultural and social landscape of the Caddo Indian peoples (hayaanuh) for about 1000 years between c. 900 and 1900 AD. There were continual changes in the character and extent of ancestral landscapes, through times of plenty, risk, and hardship, as well as in relationships between different communities of Caddo peoples dispersed or concentrated across the landscape at different points in time. These ancestral peoples, in all their diversity of origins, material culture, subsistence, and rituals and religious beliefs, actively created their societies by establishing connected places on the land that became home and lead to the formation of social networks across environments with a diverse mosaic of resources. Established places lent order to the chaotic worlds of people and nature, and they embodied history and the cosmos here on earth. Caddo Landscapes explores the ancestral Caddo constructed landscape, providing detailed information on earthen mounds, specialized non-mound structures, domestic settlements and their key facilities as well as associated gardens and fields, and places where salt, clay, lithic raw materials, and other materials were obtained and the social ties that linked communities in numerous ways. The character and key sequences of ceramics are discussed and radiometric dating evidence provided.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Chapter 1. Caddo archaeological landscapes in the East Texas Forests
  • Scope and character of East Texas Caddo archaeology
  • Temporal and spatial considerations
  • Caddo landscapes and architectural context
  • Caddo horticultural and agricultural economies
  • Long distance trade
  • Population densities and estimate
• Chapter 2. Everyday things: the character of prehistoric and Early Historic Caddo ceramics
• Chapter 3. Environmental setting and paleoenvironmental changes
  • Habitats
  • Pollen and tree ring records and paleoenvironmental change
  • Drought indices
• Chapter 4. The beginnings of Caddo groups and communities c. AD 850–1200
  • Woodland period ancestors
  • Formative to Early Caddo settlements and communities
  • Constructed mounds
  • Key non-mound sites
• Chapter 5. Caddo dispersion across the East Texas forests c. AD 1200–1400
  • Settlements and communities
  • Constructed mounds
  • Key non-mound sites
• Chapter 6. The full flowering of Caddo communities in East Texas c. AD 1400–1680, with contributions by Robert L. Cast and Ross C. Fields
  • Settlements and political communities
  • Key Texarkana and McCurtain Phase sites
  • Key Titus phase sites and constructed mounds, with contributions by Ross C. Fields
  • Key Frankston, Angelina and Salt Lick phase sites
• Chapter 7. Caddo peoples and communities in East Texas at the time of European Colonization, c. AD 1680–1838, with contributions by Robert L. Cast and Tom Middlebrook
  • Settlements and communities
  • Key sites
  • Other Nacogdoches County sites, by Tom Middlebrook
• Chapter 8. The Future of Caddo Archaeology
  • Final thoughts
• Appendix 1. Key Caddo sites to visit in the East Texas Forests
• Bibliography