The Mississippian emergence [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Bruce D. Smith ; with a new preface by the author

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 975/.01
• Soggetto topico: Mississippian culture; Indians of North America - Southern States - Antiquities; Indians of North America - Mississippi River Valley - Antiquities
• Soggetto geografico: Mississippi River Valley Antiquities; Southern States Antiquities
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SmithBruce D <1946-> (Bruce David)
• Note generali: Originally published: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. With new pref.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Powell Canal: Baytown Period Adaption on Bayou Macon, Southeast Arkansas; 3. The Totec mounds Site: A Ceremonial Center in the Arkansas River Lowland; 4. The Zebree Siter: An Emerged Early Mississippian Experession in Northeast Arkansas; 5. Range Site Community Patterns and the Mississippian Emergence; 6. The Emergence of Mississippian Culture in the American Bottom Region; 7. Emergent Mississipian in the Central Mississippi Valley; 8. Explaining Mississippian Origins in Est Tennessee ; 9. Emergence in West-Central Alabama10u. Mississippian Emergence in the Fort Walton Area: The Evolution of the Cayson and Lake Jackson Phases; 11. Trade and the Evolution of Relations at the Beginning of the Mississipiain Period.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection, addressing a topic of ongoing interest and debate in American archaeology, examines the evolution of ranked chiefdoms in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States during the period A.D. 700-1200. The volume brings together a broad range of professionals engaged in the fieldwork that has vitalized the theoretical debates on the development of Mississippi Valley cultures. The initial chapter provides a general discussion of various explanations for the rise of these distinctive ranked societies in the eastern United States (A.D. 750-1050) and sets the stage for the inte
• Titolo autorizzato: The Mississippian emergence
• ISBN: 0-8173-8430-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460025303321
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