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Sunwatch Fort Ancient development in the Mississippian world
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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 characteristic...
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
Details
- Creator
- Robert A. Cook
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (214 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0817354581, 9780817315900, 081731590X, 9780817381776, 9780817354589, 0817381775
- OCLC
- ocn654492997, ocn609852662
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-182) and index.
- English
- 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