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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824288303321

Autore

Pluckhahn Thomas J (Thomas John), <1966->

Titolo

Kolomoki : settlement, ceremony, and status in the Deep South, A.D. 350 to 750 / / Thomas J. Pluckhahn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8173-8222-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

975.8/901

Soggetti

Woodland culture - Georgia

Excavations (Archaeology) - Georgia

Kolomoki Mounds State Historic Park (Ga.)

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. [227]-249)and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. An Introduction to Kolomoki -- 2. Putting Kolomoki in Its Place: Defining the Temporal, Ecological, and Cultural Contexts -- 3. Preliminary DeĀ¤nition of Activity Areas at Kolomoki: Summary of Previous Research -- 4. Defining Activity Areas at Kolomoki: Results of Intensive Sampling -- 5. Characterizing Activity Areas at Kolomoki: Results of Test Excavations and Geophysical Prospection -- 6. Examining a Domestic Activity Area at Kolomoki: Results of Small Block Excavations -- 7. Kolomoki as a Historical Process -- Notes -- References Cited -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The first comprehensive and systematic investigation of a Woodland period ceremonial center. Kolomoki, one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the southeastern United States, includes at least nine large earthen mounds in the lower Chattahoochee River valley of southwest Georgia. The largest, Mound A, rises approximately 20 meters above the terrace that borders it. From its flat-topped summit, a visitor can survey the string of smaller mounds that form an arc to the south and west. Archaeological research had previously placed Kolomoki within the Mississippian period (ca. a.d. 1000-