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UNINA9910818261603321 |
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Autore |
Anderson David G. <1949-> |
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Titolo |
The Savannah River chiefdoms : political change in the late prehistoric Southeast / / David G. Anderson |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1994 |
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0-8173-8079-5 |
0-585-31580-9 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (481 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mississippian culture - Savannah River Watershed (Ga. and S.C.) |
Chiefdoms - Savannah River Watershed (Ga. and S.C.) |
Indians of North America - Savannah River Watershed (Ga. and S.C.) - Politics and government |
Indians of North America - Savannah River Watershed (Ga. and S.C.) - Antiquities |
Savannah River Watershed (Ga. and S.C.) Antiquities |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally presented as author's dissertation (doctoral--University of Alabama, 1990). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-446) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Political Evolution and Cycling; 2. The Causes of Cycling; 3. Mississippian Political Change: Evidence from Ethnohistoric Accounts; 4. Mississippian Political Change: Evidence from Archaeological Research; 5. Evidence for Mississippian Occupation in the Savannah River Valley; 6. The Record of Political Change in the Savannah River Chiefdom's; 7. Political Change in the Savannah River Chiefdom's: Environmental Factors; 8. Political Change in the Savannah River Chiefdom's: Events at Particular Sites and General Trends |
9. Exploring Political Change in Chiefdom Society Appendix A. Early Historic Descriptions of Mississippian Centers in the Savannah River Basim; Appendix B. Mississippian Cultural Sequences in the Savannah River Valley; References Cited; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume explores political change in chiefdom's, specifically how complex chiefdom's emerge and collapse, and how this process-called cycling-can be examined using archaeological, ethnohistoric, |
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