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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460663603321

Autore

Rodning Christopher Bernard

Titolo

Center places and Cherokee towns : archaeological perspectives on Native American architecture and landscape in the Southern Appalachians / / Christopher B. Rodning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, AL : , : The University of Alabama Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8173-8772-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Disciplina

975.004/97557

Soggetti

Cherokee Indians - Appalachian Region, Southern - Antiquities

Cherokee Indians - History

Extinct cities - Appalachian Region, Southern

Indians of North America - Appalachian Region, Southern - Antiquities

Electronic books.

Appalachian Region, Southern Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. The Middle Cherokee Town at Coweeta Creek; 2. Mounds, Townhouses, and Cherokee Towns; 3. Public Architecture; 4. Domestic Architecture; 5. Hearths; 6. Burials; 7. Abandonment of the Coweeta Creek Site; 8. Center Places in the Cherokee Landscape; References Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Center Places and Cherokee Towns, Christopher B. Rodning opens a panoramic vista onto protohistoric Cherokee culture. He posits that Cherokee households and towns were anchored within their cultural and natural landscapes by built features that acted as "center places."Rodning investigates the period from just before the first Spanish contact with sixteenth-century Native American chiefdoms in La Florida through the development of formal trade relations between Native American societies and English and French colonial provinces in the American South during the late 1600's and 1700's. Rodning