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200 10$aCahokia and the archaeology of power /$fThomas E. Emerson
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aTuscaloosa, AL $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc1997
215   $a1 online resource (337 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-8173-0888-1 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-306) and index.
327   $aContents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. The Conceptual Parameters; 3. The Cultural-Historical Contexts; 4. Mississippian Rural Settlement; 5. Cahokian Rural Nodes: The Archaeological Evidence; 6. Interpreting Cahokian Rural Settlements; 7. The Cahokian Symbolic World; 8. Cahokian Rural Cults; 9. Conclusions; References Cited; Index
330   $a This dramatic and controversial new interpretation of Cahokian leadership strategies examines the authority a ruling elite exercised over the surrounding countryside through a complex of social, political, and religious symbolism.   This study uses the theoretical concepts of agency, power, and ideology to explore the development of cultural complexity within the hierarchically organized Cahokia Middle Mississippian society of the American Bottom from the 11th to the 13th centuries. By scrutinizing the available archaeological settlement and symbolic evidence, Em
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