Sunwatch [[electronic resource] ] : Fort Ancient development in the Mississippian world / / Robert A. Cook

• Autore: Cook Robert A (Robert Allen), <1970->
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II