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Autore |
Cook Robert A (Robert Allen), <1970-> |
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Titolo |
Sunwatch [[electronic resource] ] : Fort Ancient development in the Mississippian world / / Robert A. Cook |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (214 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Fort Ancient culture - Ohio River Valley |
Mississippian culture - Ohio River Valley |
Social archaeology - Ohio River Valley |
Electronic books. |
Sunwatch Site (Dayton, Ohio) |
Ohio River Valley Antiquities |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-182) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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To be Mississippian or not to be Mississippian? -- Fort Ancient and the range of Mississippian social complexity -- An approach to the problem -- Corporate behavior in space and time -- Development of village leadership -- Periphery peers -- A model of Fort Ancient village development. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The last prehistoric cultures to inhabit the Middle Ohio Valley (ca. A.D. 1000-1650) are referred to as Fort Ancient societies, which exhibited a wide variety of Mississippian period characteristics. What is less well-known and little understood are the social processes by which Mississippian characteristics spread to Fort Ancient communities. Through a comprehensive study of SunWatch, one of the few thoroughly excavated Fort Ancient settlements, the author focuses on the development of village social structure within a broad geographic and temporal framework, recognizing border areas as |
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