Mississippian Communities and Households.
Title:
Mississippian Communities and Households.
Author:
Rogers, J. Daniel.
ISBN:
9780817384227
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (325 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / J. Daniel Rogers -- 1. The Archaeological Analysis of Domestic Organization / J. Daniel Rogers -- 2. Household Archaeology at Cahokia and in Its Hinterlands / Mark W. Mehrer and James M. Collins -- 3. Social Differentiation in Mississippian and Fort Ancient Societies / John P. Nass, Jr., and Richard W. Yerkes -- 4. Dispersed Communities and Integrated Households: A Perspective from Spiro and the Arkansas Basin / J. Daniel Rogers -- 5. Mississippian Household and Community Organization in Eastern Tennessee / Lynne P. Sullivan -- 6. Chiefly Compounds / Mark Williams -- 7. Lamar Period Upland Farmsteads of the Oconee River Valley, Georgia / James W. Hatch -- 8. Toward an Explanation of Variation in Moundville Phase Households in the Black Warrior Valley, Alabama / Tim S. Mistovich -- 9. Mississippian Homestead and Village Subsistence Organization: Contrasts in Large-Mammal Remains from Two Sites in the Tombigbee Valley / H. Edwin Jackson and Susan L. Scott -- 10. Apalachee Homesteads: The Basal Social and Economic Units of a Mississippian Chiefdom / John F. Scarry -- 11. The Analysis of Single-Household Mississippian Settlements / Bruce D. Smith -- References Cited -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
During the Mississippian period (approximately A.D. 1000-1600) in the midwestern and southeastern United States a variety of greater and lesser chiefdoms took shape. Archaeologists have for many years explored the nature of these chiefdoms from the perspective common in archaeological investigations-from the top down, investigating ceremonial elite mound structures and predicting the basic domestic unit from that data. Because of the increased number of field investigations at the community level in recent years, this volume is able to move the scale of investigation down to the level of community and household, and it contributes to major revisions of settlement hierarchy concepts.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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