Towns and temples along the Mississippi [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David H. Dye and Cheryl Anne Cox

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1990
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (308 p.)
• Disciplina: 977.00497; 977/.00497
• Soggetto topico: Mississippian culture; Indian architecture - Mississippi River Valley
• Altri autori: DyeDavid H CoxCheryl Anne <1953->
• Note generali: "A Dan Josselyn memorial publication."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Introduction; 1. Comments on the Late Prehistoric Societies in the Southeast; 2. An Evaluation of the Biocultural Consequences of the Mississippian Transformation; 3. The Late Prehistory of the Ohio-Mississippi Rivers Confluence Region, Kentucky and Missouri; 4. Protohistoric/Early Historic Manifestations in Southeastern Missouri; 5. The Nodena Phase; 6. Health and Disease at Nodena: A Late Mississippian Community in Northeastern Arkansas; 7. The Parkin Site and the Parkin Phase; 8. The Walls Phase and Its Neighbors ; 9. The Vacant Quarter and Other Late Events in the Lower Valley10. The Hernando de Soto Expedition: From Mabila to the Mississippi River; 11. The Terminal Mississippian Period in the Arkansas River Valley and Quapaw Ethnogenesis; 12. Historic Indians of the Lower Mississippi Valley: An Archaeologist's View; 13. Comprehensive Planning for the Protection and Preservation of Mississippian Sites in Tennessee; References; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A Dan Josselyn Memorial PublicationSpecialists from archaeology, ethnohistory, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology bring their varied points of view to this subject in an attempt to answer basic questions about the nature and extent of social change within the time period. The scholars' overriding concerns include presentation of a scientifically accurate depiction of the native cultures in the Central Mississippi Valley prior and immediately subsequent to European contact and the need to document the ensuing social and biological changes that eventually l
• Titolo autorizzato: Towns and temples along the Mississippi
• ISBN: 0-8173-8311-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778483403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II