Archaeology Of The Mississippian Culture
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Archaeology Of The Mississippian Culture
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Author : Peter N. Peregrine
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-11
Archaeology Of The Mississippian Culture written by Peter N. Peregrine and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-11 with Social Science categories.
First published in 1996. In recent years there has been a general increase of scholarly and popular interest in the study of ancient civilizations. Yet, because archaeologists and other scholars tend to approach their study of ancient peoples and places almost exclusively from their own disciplinary perspectives, there has long been a lack of general bibliographic and other research resources available for the non-specialist. This series is intended to fill that need.
Authority Autonomy And The Archaeology Of A Mississippian Community
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Author : Erin S. Nelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Authority Autonomy And The Archaeology Of A Mississippian Community written by Erin S. Nelson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with SOCIAL SCIENCE categories.
This book is the first detailed investigation of the important archaeological site of Parchman Place in the Mississippi Delta, a defining area for understanding the Mississippian culture that spanned much of what is now the United States Southeast and Midwest before the fifteenth century.
Cahokia And The Hinterlands
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Author : Thomas E. Emerson
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1991
Cahokia And The Hinterlands written by Thomas E. Emerson and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
Covering topics as diverse as economic modeling, craft specialization, settlement patterns, agricultural and subsistence systems, and the development of social ranking, Cahokia and the Hinterlands explores cultural interactions among Cahokians and the inhabitants of other population centers, including Orensdorf and the Dickson Mounds in Illinois and Aztalan in Wisconsin, as well as sites in Minnesota, Iowa, and at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Proposing sophisticated and innovative models for the growth, development, and decline of Mississippian culture at Cahokia and elsewhere, this volume also provides insight into the rise of chiefdoms and stratified societies and the development of trade throughout the world.
Authority Autonomy And The Archaeology Of A Mississippian Community
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Author : Erin S. Nelson
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2019-11-01
Authority Autonomy And The Archaeology Of A Mississippian Community written by Erin S. Nelson and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-01 with Social Science categories.
This book is the first detailed investigation of the important archaeological site of Parchman Place in the Yazoo Basin, a defining area for understanding the Mississippian culture that spanned much of what is now the United States Southeast and Midwest before the mid-sixteenth century. Refining the widely accepted theory that this society was strongly hierarchical, Erin Nelson provides data that suggest communities navigated tensions between authority and autonomy in their placemaking and in their daily lives. Drawing on archaeological evidence from foodways, monumental and domestic architecture, and the organization of communal space at the site, Nelson argues that Mississippian people negotiated contradictory ideas about what it meant to belong to a community. For example, although they clearly had powerful leaders, communities built mounds and other structures in ways that re-created their views of the cosmos, expressing values of wholeness and balance. Nelson’s findings shed light on the inner workings of Mississippian communities and other hierarchical societies of the period. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
Mississippian Communities And Households
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Author : J. Daniel Rogers
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 1995-11-30
Mississippian Communities And Households written by J. Daniel Rogers and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-11-30 with History categories.
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.
Ancient Cahokia And The Mississippians
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Author : Timothy R. Pauketat
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-06-17
Ancient Cahokia And The Mississippians written by Timothy R. Pauketat and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-17 with Social Science categories.
Using a wealth of archaeological evidence, this book outlines the development of Mississippian civilization.
Mississippian Beginnings
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Author : Gregory D. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2019-09-16
Mississippian Beginnings written by Gregory D. Wilson and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-16 with Social Science categories.
Using fresh evidence and nontraditional ideas, the contributing authors of Mississippian Beginnings reconsider the origins of the Mississippian culture of the North American Midwest and Southeast (A.D. 1000–1600). Challenging the decades-old opinion that this culture evolved similarly across isolated Woodland popu¬lations, they discuss signs of migrations, missionization, pilgrimages, violent conflicts, long-distance exchange, and other far-flung entanglements that now appear to have shaped the early Mississippian past. Presenting recent fieldwork from a wide array of sites including Cahokia and the American Bottom, archival studies, and new investigations of legacy collections, the contributors interpret results through contemporary perspectives that emphasize agency and historical contingency. They track the various ways disparate cultures across a sizeable swath of the continent experienced Mississippianization and came to share simi¬lar architecture, pottery, subsistence strategies, sociopolitical organization, iconography, and religion. Together, these essays provide the most comprehensive examination of early Mississippian culture in over thirty years. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
The Archaeology Of Town Creek
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Author : Edmond A. Boudreaux
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2007-11-04
The Archaeology Of Town Creek written by Edmond A. Boudreaux and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-04 with Architecture categories.
Provides new insights into the community pattern and leadership roles at a major Mississippian archaeological site The sequence of change for public architecture during the Mississippian period may reflect a centralization of political power through time. In the research presented here, some of the community-level assumptions attributed to the appearance of Mississippian mounds are tested against the archaeological record of the Town Creek site—the remains of a town located on the northeastern edge of the Mississippian culture area. In particular, the archaeological record of Town Creek is used to test the idea that the appearance of Mississippian platform mounds was accompanied by the centralization of political authority in the hands of a powerful chief. A compelling argument has been made that mounds were the seats and symbols of political power within Mississippian societies. While platform mounds have been a part of Southeastern Native American communities since at least 100 B.C., around A.D. 400 leaders in some communities began to place their houses on top of earthen mounds—an act that has been interpreted as an attempt to legitimize personal authority by a community leader through the appropriation of a powerful, traditional, community-oriented symbol. Platform mounds at a number of sites were preceded by a distinctive type of building called an earthlodge—a structure with earth-embanked walls and an entrance indicated by short, parallel wall trenches. Earthlodges in the Southeast have been interpreted as places where a council of community leaders came together to make decisions based on consensus. In contrast to the more inclusive function proposed for premound earthlodges, it has been argued that access to the buildings on top of Mississippian platform mounds was limited to a much smaller subset of the community. If this was the case and if ground-level earthlodges were more accessible than mound-summit structures, then access to leaders and leadership may have decreased through time. Excavations at the Town Creek archaeological site have shown that the public architecture there follows the earthlodge-to-platform mound sequence that is well known across the South Appalachian subarea of the Mississippian world. The clear changes in public architecture coupled with the extensive exposure of the site's domestic sphere make Town Creek an excellent case study for examining the relationship among changes in public architecture and leadership within a Mississippian society.
Cahokia
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Author : Timothy R. Pauketat
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2000-01-01
Cahokia written by Timothy R. Pauketat and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-01 with Social Science categories.
About one thousand years ago, Native Americans built hundreds of earthen platform mounds, plazas, residential areas, and other types of monuments in the vicinity of present-day St. Louis. This sprawling complex, known to archaeologists as Cahokia, was the dominant cultural, ceremonial, and trade center north of Mexico for centuries. This stimulating collection of essays casts new light on the remarkable accomplishments of Cahokia.
Archaeology Of The Central Mississippi Valley
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Author : Dan F. Morse
language : en
Publisher: Academic Press
Release Date : 2014-05-10
Archaeology Of The Central Mississippi Valley written by Dan F. Morse and has been published by Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-10 with History categories.
Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley describes an archeological reconstruction of the preceding 11,000 years of an extraordinarily rich environment centered within the largest river system north of the Amazon. This book focuses on the lowlands of the Mississippi Valley from just north of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Arkansas River. Organized into 13 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the territory between the Ohio and Arkansas rivers. This text then attempts to humanize the archeological interpretations by reference to social organization, settlement system, economy, religion, and politics. Other chapters focus on understanding the nature of change through time in the Central Mississippi Valley. This book discusses as well the difference between an old braided stream surface and the younger meander belt system. The final chapter deals with the investigation of prehistoric Indian remains. This book is a valuable resource for archeologists, zoologists, and scientific hobbyists.