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Autore |
Cobb Charles R (Charles Richard), <1956-> |
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Titolo |
From quarry to cornfield [[electronic resource] ] : the political economy of Mississippian hoe production / / Charles R. Cobb |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2000 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (276 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Hoes, Prehistoric - Mississippi River Valley |
Mississippian culture |
Indians of North America - Illinois - Antiquities |
Electronic books. |
Mill Creek Site (Ill.) |
Illinois Antiquities |
Mississippi River Valley Antiquities |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
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. [207]-249) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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A day in the life -- Specialization, exchange, and power in small-scale societies and chiefdoms -- Exchanging chert, consuming chert -- Rethinking the organization of lithic technology -- Life in the Mississippian uplands -- The regional structure of Hoe production -- Hoe production and the domestic economy -- Production and power: defining scales. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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From Quarry to Cornfield provides an innovative model for examining the technology of hoe production and its contribution to the agriculture of Mississippian communities. Lithic specialist Charles Cobb examines the political economy in Mississippian communities through a case study of raw material procurement and hoe production and usage at the Mill Creek site on Dillow Ridge in southwest Illinois. Cobb outlines the day-to-day activities in a Mississippian chiefdom village that flourished from about A.D. 1250 to 1500. In so doing, he provides a fascinating window |
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