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Mississippian communities and households [[electronic resource] /] / edited by J. Daniel Rogers and Bruce D. Smith



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Titolo: Mississippian communities and households [[electronic resource] /] / edited by J. Daniel Rogers and Bruce D. Smith Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1995
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (325 p.)
Disciplina: 975.01
975/.01
Soggetto topico: Mississippian culture
Indians of North America - Southern States - Antiquities
Soggetto geografico: Southern States Antiquities
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: RogersJ. Daniel  
SmithBruce D <1946-> (Bruce David)  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-296) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction / J. Daniel Rogers; 1. The Archaeological Analysis of Domestic Organization / J. Daniel Rogers; 2. Household Archaeology at Cahokia and in Its Hinterlands / Mark W. Mehrer and James M. Collins; 3. Social Differentiation in Mississippian and Fort Ancient Societies / John P. Nass, Jr., and Richard W. Yerkes; 4. Dispersed Communities and Integrated Households: A Perspective from Spiro and the Arkansas Basin / J. Daniel Rogers; 5. Mississippian Household and Community Organization in Eastern Tennessee / Lynne P. Sullivan
6. Chiefly Compounds / Mark Williams7. Lamar Period Upland Farmsteads of the Oconee River Valley, Georgia / James W. Hatch; 8. Toward an Explanation of Variation in Moundville Phase Households in the Black Warrior Valley, Alabama / Tim S. Mistovich; 9. Mississippian Homestead and Village Subsistence Organization: Contrasts in Large-Mammal Remains from Two Sites in the Tombigbee Valley / H. Edwin Jackson and Susan L. Scott; 10. Apalachee Homesteads: The Basal Social and Economic Units of a Mississippian Chiefdom / John F. Scarry
11. The Analysis of Single-Household Mississippian Settlements / Bruce D. SmithReferences Cited; Contributors; Index
Sommario/riassunto: During the Mississippian period (approximately A.D. 1000-1600) in the midwestern and southeastern United States a variety of greater and lesser chiefdoms took shape. Archaeologists have for many years explored the nature of these chiefdoms from the perspective common in archaeological investigations-from the top down, investigating ceremonial elite mound structures and predicting the basic domestic unit from that data. Because of the increased number of field investigations at the community level in recent years, this volume is able to move the scale of investigation down to the level
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ISBN: 0-8173-8422-7
0-585-35419-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910455439103321
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