1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996527677203316

Titolo

99 Cents Only Stores LLC MarketLine Company Profile

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MarketLine, a Progressive Digital Media business

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784902003321

Autore

Knight Vernon J

Titolo

Mound excavations at Moundville [[electronic resource] ] : architecture, elites, and social order / / Vernon James Knight, Jr. ; with a contribution by H. Edwin Jackson and Susan L. Scott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2010

ISBN

0-8173-8151-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (426 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JacksonH. Edwin

ScottSusan L

Disciplina

976.1/43

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology) - Alabama - Moundville

Mounds - Alabama - Moundville

Architecture - Alabama - Moundville - History

Elite (Social sciences) - Alabama - Moundville - History

Social archaeology - Alabama - Moundville

Indians of North America - Alabama - Moundville - Antiquities

Mississippian culture - Alabama - Moundville

Moundville (Ala.) Antiquities

Moundville Archaeological Park (Moundville, Ala.)

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; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction to the Mound Excavations, 1989-1998; 2. Chronology,



Units of Content, and Pottery Classification; 3. Classification of Objects Other than Pottery; 4. Excavations in Mound Q; 5. Excavations in Mound E; 6. Excavations in Mounds P, R, F, G, and A; 7. Collections from Mounds B, H, I, J, K, L, and M; 8. Zooarchaeology of the Moundville Elite H. Edwin Jackson and Susan L. Scott; 9. Comparative Analysis and Conclusions; Appendix 1. Botanical Remains from Mounds Q and G; Appendix 2. Inventory of Features, Mounds Q and E

Appendix 3. Catalog Numbers of Illustrated ArtifactsAppendix 4. Those Who Did the Work; References Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

How social and political power was wielded in order to build Moundville  This work is a state-of-the-art, data-rich study of excavations undertaken at the Moundville site in west central Alabama, one of the largest and most complex of the mound sites of pre-contact North America. Despite the site's importance and sustained attention by researchers, until now it has lacked a comprehensive analysis of its modern excavations. Richly documented by maps, artifact photo-graphs, profiles of strata, and inventories of materials found, the present work explores one expression