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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782141403321

Autore

Pollack David <1951->

Titolo

Caborn-Welborn [[electronic resource] ] : constructing a new society after the Angel Chiefdom collapse / / David Pollack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8173-8223-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

977/.01

Soggetti

Mississippian culture - Ohio River Valley

Mississippian culture - Wabash River Valley

Mississippian pottery - Ohio River Valley

Mississippian pottery - Wabash River Valley

Chiefdoms - Ohio River Valley

Chiefdoms - Wabash River Valley

Excavations (Archaeology) - Ohio River Valley

Excavations (Archaeology) - Wabash River Valley

Ohio River Valley Antiquities

Wabash River Valley 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 (p. [211]-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Pre-A.D. 1400 Mississippian Regional Centers, Angel's Collapse, and Caborn-Welborn Developments in the Lower Ohio River Valley; 3. Ceramic Descriptions; 4. Site Types and Their Spatial Distribution; 5. Temporal Trends; 6. Cultural and Functional Ceramic Patterns; 7. Interpretations and Conclusions; References Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An important case study of chiefdom collapse and societal reemergence. Caborn-Welborn, a late Mississippian (A.D. 1400?) farming society centered at the confluence of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers (in what is now southwestern Indiana, southeastern Illinois, and northwestern Kentucky), developed following the collapse of the Angel chiefdom (A.D. 1000?). Using ceramic and settlement data, David Pollack examines the ways in which that new society reconstructed



social, political, and economic relationships from the remnants of the Angel chiefdom. Unlike most instances of the demise of a complex socie