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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454466303321

Autore

Wilson Gregory D. <1969->

Titolo

The archaeology of everyday life at early Moundville [[electronic resource] /] / Gregory D. Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8173-8234-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Disciplina

976.1/43

Soggetti

Mississippian culture - Alabama - Black Warrior River Valley

Mississippian pottery - Alabama - Black Warrior River Valley

Social archaeology - Alabama - Black Warrior River Valley

Electronic books.

Moundville Archaeological Park (Moundville, Ala.)

Black Warrior River Valley (Ala.) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Dan Josselyn memorial publication"--P. facing t.p.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-168) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Mississippian communities and households -- Moundville households in space and time -- Architecture and community organization -- Ceramics at early Moundville -- Discussion and conclusions -- Appendix 1: Architectural data -- Appendix 2: Counts and frequencies of all sherds by context.

Sommario/riassunto

Complex Mississippian polities were neither developed nor sustained in a vacuum. A broad range of small-scale social groups played a variety of roles in the emergence of regionally organized political hierarchies that governed large-scale ceremonial centers. Recent research has revealed the extent to which interactions among corporately organized clans led to the development, success, and collapse of Moundville. These insights into Moundville's social complexity are based primarily on the study of monumental architecture and mortuary ceremonialism. Less is known about how everyday domesti