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Autore: |
Hally David J
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Titolo: |
King [[electronic resource] ] : the social archaeology of a late Mississippian town in northwestern Georgia / / David J. Hally
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Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (616 p.) |
Disciplina: | 975.8/35 |
Soggetto topico: | Indians of North America - Georgia - Antiquities |
Social archaeology - Georgia | |
Excavations (Archaeology) - Georgia | |
Mississippian culture - Georgia | |
Indians of North America - Georgia - Social conditions - 16th century | |
Social status - Georgia - History - 16th century | |
Households - Georgia - History - 16th century | |
Community life - Georgia - History - 16th century | |
Spaniards - Georgia - History - 16th century | |
Soggetto geografico: | King Site (Ga.) |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-573) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | The nature of Mississippian society -- The natural, cultural, and historical context of the King Site -- Site excavations -- Domestic architecture -- Public architecture -- Burial descriptions -- Household and community -- Analysis of burial attribute associations -- Artifact co-occurrences -- Artifact co-occurrences among adult males -- Community and polity in northwestern Georgia -- Contents of accompanying compact disc: Appendix A: Description of primary domestic structures; Appendix B: Description of rectangular structures; Appendix C: Burial data; Appendix D: Stratigraphic characteristics of disturbed, intrusive, and multiple burials; Appendix E: Age and sex identification of burials; Appendix F: Burial assignment of grave goods in multiple and intrusive burials; Appendix G: Location of burials; Appendix H: Location of postholes and features. |
Sommario/riassunto: | At the time of Spanish contact in A.D. 1540, the Mississippian inhabitants of the great valley in northwestern Georgia and adjacent portions of Alabama and Tennessee were organized into a number of chiefdom's distributed along the Coosa and Tennessee rivers and their major tributaries. The administrative centers of these polities were large settlements with one or more platforms mounds and a plaza. Each had a large resident population, but most polity members lived in a half dozen or so towns located within a day's walk of the center. This book is about one such town, located on the |
Titolo autorizzato: | King ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8173-8121-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910820130103321 |
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