Signs of power : the rise of cultural complexity in the Southeast / / edited by Jon L. Gibson and Philip J. Carr

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (400 p.)
• Disciplina: 975/.01
• Soggetto topico: Mounds - Southern States; Indians of North America - Southern States - Antiquities
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Antiquities
• Altri autori: GibsonJon L CarrPhilip J. <1966->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-364) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Big Mounds, Big Rings, Big Power; 2 Late Archaic Fisher-Foragers in the Apalachicola- Lower Chattahoochee Valley, Northwest Florida- South Georgia/Alabama; 3 Measuring Shell Rings for Social Inequality; 4 Regional-Scale Interaction Networks and the Emergence of Cultural Complexity along the Northern Margins of the Southeast; 5 The Green River in Comparison to the Lower Mississippi Valley during the Archaic; 6 Cultural Complexity in the Middle Archaic of Mississippi; 7 The Burkett Site ( 23MI20) ; 8 Poverty Point Chipped-Stone Tool Raw Materials9 Are We Fixing to Make the Same Mistake Again?; 10 Surrounding the Sacred; 11 Crossing the Symbolic Rubicon in the Southeast; 12 Explaining Sociopolitical Complexity in the Foraging Adaptations of the Southeastern United States; 13 The Power of Beneficent Obligation in First Mound- Building Societies; 14 Archaic Mounds and the Archaeology of Southeastern Tribal Societies; 15 Old Mounds, Ancient Hunter-Gatherers, and Modern Archaeologists; References Cited; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Traces the sources of power and large-scale organization of prehistoric peoples among Archaic societies. By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this book explores the sources of power and organization among Archaic societies. It investigates the origins of these technologies and their effects on long-term (evolutionary) and short-term (historical) change. The characteristics of first origins in social complexity be
• Titolo autorizzato: Signs of power
• ISBN: 0-8173-8279-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822317203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II