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UNINA9910822317203321 |
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Titolo |
Signs of power : the rise of cultural complexity in the Southeast / / edited by Jon L. Gibson and Philip J. Carr |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2004 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (400 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GibsonJon L |
CarrPhilip J. <1966-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mounds - Southern States |
Indians of North America - Southern States - Antiquities |
Southern States 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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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-364) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Big Mounds, Big Rings, Big Power; 2 Late Archaic Fisher-Foragers in the Apalachicola- Lower Chattahoochee Valley, Northwest Florida- South Georgia/Alabama; 3 Measuring Shell Rings for Social Inequality; 4 Regional-Scale Interaction Networks and the Emergence of Cultural Complexity along the Northern Margins of the Southeast; 5 The Green River in Comparison to the Lower Mississippi Valley during the Archaic; 6 Cultural Complexity in the Middle Archaic of Mississippi; 7 The Burkett Site ( 23MI20) |
8 Poverty Point Chipped-Stone Tool Raw Materials9 Are We Fixing to Make the Same Mistake Again?; 10 Surrounding the Sacred; 11 Crossing the Symbolic Rubicon in the Southeast; 12 Explaining Sociopolitical Complexity in the Foraging Adaptations of the Southeastern United States; 13 The Power of Beneficent Obligation in First Mound- Building Societies; 14 Archaic Mounds and the Archaeology of Southeastern Tribal Societies; 15 Old Mounds, Ancient Hunter-Gatherers, and Modern Archaeologists; References Cited; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Traces the sources of power and large-scale organization of prehistoric peoples among Archaic societies. By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as |
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