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Autore: |
Cook Robert A (Robert Allen), <1970->
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Titolo: |
Sunwatch [[electronic resource] ] : Fort Ancient development in the Mississippian world / / Robert A. Cook
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Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (214 p.) |
Disciplina: | 973.1/73 |
Soggetto topico: | Fort Ancient culture - Ohio River Valley |
Mississippian culture - Ohio River Valley | |
Social archaeology - Ohio River Valley | |
Soggetto geografico: | Sunwatch Site (Dayton, Ohio) |
Ohio River Valley Antiquities | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-182) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | To be Mississippian or not to be Mississippian? -- Fort Ancient and the range of Mississippian social complexity -- An approach to the problem -- Corporate behavior in space and time -- Development of village leadership -- Periphery peers -- A model of Fort Ancient village development. |
Sommario/riassunto: | The last prehistoric cultures to inhabit the Middle Ohio Valley (ca. A.D. 1000-1650) are referred to as Fort Ancient societies, which exhibited a wide variety of Mississippian period characteristics. What is less well-known and little understood are the social processes by which Mississippian characteristics spread to Fort Ancient communities. Through a comprehensive study of SunWatch, one of the few thoroughly excavated Fort Ancient settlements, the author focuses on the development of village social structure within a broad geographic and temporal framework, recognizing border areas as |
Titolo autorizzato: | Sunwatch ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8173-8177-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910781062603321 |
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