King [[electronic resource] ] : the social archaeology of a late Mississippian town in northwestern Georgia / / David J. Hally

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778043103321
• Autore: Hally David J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2008
• ISBN: 0-8173-8121-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (616 p.)
• Disciplina: 975.8/35
• Soggetti: Indians of North America - Georgia - Antiquities; Social archaeology - Georgia; Excavations (Archaeology) - Georgia; Mississippian culture - Georgia; Indians of North America - Georgia - Social conditions - 16th century; Social status - Georgia - History - 16th century; Households - Georgia - History - 16th century; Community life - Georgia - History - 16th century; Spaniards - Georgia - History - 16th century; King Site (Ga.)
• 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 (p. [545]-573) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The nature of Mississippian society -- The natural, cultural, and historical context of the King Site -- Site excavations -- Domestic architecture -- Public architecture -- Burial descriptions -- Household and community -- Analysis of burial attribute associations -- Artifact co-occurrences -- Artifact co-occurrences among adult males -- Community and polity in northwestern Georgia -- Contents of accompanying compact disc: Appendix A: Description of primary domestic structures; Appendix B: Description of rectangular structures; Appendix C: Burial data; Appendix D: Stratigraphic characteristics of disturbed, intrusive, and multiple burials; Appendix E: Age and sex identification of burials; Appendix F: Burial assignment of grave goods in multiple and intrusive burials; Appendix G: Location of burials; Appendix H: Location of postholes and features.
• Sommario/riassunto: At the time of Spanish contact in A.D. 1540, the Mississippian inhabitants of the great valley in northwestern Georgia and adjacent portions of Alabama and Tennessee were organized into a number of chiefdom's distributed along the Coosa and Tennessee rivers and their major tributaries. The administrative centers of these polities were large settlements with one or more platforms mounds and a plaza. Each had a large resident population, but most polity members lived in a half dozen or so towns located within a day's walk of the center. This book is about one such town, located on the