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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818261603321

Autore

Anderson David G. <1949->

Titolo

The Savannah River chiefdoms : political change in the late prehistoric Southeast / / David G. Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1994

ISBN

0-8173-8079-5

0-585-31580-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (481 p.)

Disciplina

975.8/101

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as author's dissertation (doctoral--University of Alabama, 1990).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-446) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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,



paleoclimatic, paleosubsistence, and physical anthropological data. The focus for the research is the prehistoric and initial contact-era Mississippian chiefdom's of the Southeastern United States, specifically the societies occupying the Savannah River basin from ca. A.D. 1000 to 1600. This regional focus and the multidisciplinary nature of the investigation provide a solid introduction to