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Title The archaeology of villages in eastern North America / edited by Jennifer Birch and Victor D. Thompson.

Publication Info. Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series
Ripley P. Bullen series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword: Crafting community and identity in the eastern woodlands / David G. Anderson -- The compelling power of villages / Victor D. Thompson and Jennifer Birch -- Collective action and village life during the late archaic on the Georgia coast / Victor D. Thompson -- Powers of place in the predestined middle woodland village / Neill Wallis -- Size matters: kolomoki (9er1) and the power of the hypertrophic village / Shaun E. West, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, and Martin Menz -- When villages do not form: a case study from the Piedmont Village tradition-Mississippian borderlands, 1200-1600 ce / Eric E. Jones -- Initial northern Iroquoian coalescence / Jennifer Birch and Ronald F. Williamson -- The path to the council house: the development of Mississippian communities in southeast Tennessee / Lynne E. Sullivan -- The village remains the same: a Fort Ancient example / Robert A. Cook -- Population aggregation and the emergence of circular villages in southwest Virginia / Richard W. Jeffries -- The power of Powhatan towns: socializing manitou in the Algonquian Chesapeake / Martin D. Gallivan, Christopher J. Shephard, and Jessica A. Jenkins -- From nucleated villages to dispersed networks: transformations in Seneca Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) community structure, circa 1669-1779 ce / Kurt A. Jordan -- It took a Childe to raze the village / Charles R. Cobb.
Summary This volume highlights the similarities and differences in the historical trajectories of village formation and development in eastern North America, as well as the larger processes by which villages have the power to affect large-scale social transformations. Contributors to this volume employ archaeological and historical evidence to explore the development of villages among eastern North American societies of the deep and recent past.
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Subject Indians of North America -- East (U.S.) -- Antiquities.
Indians of North America.
Antiquities.
Woodland Indians -- East (U.S.) -- Antiquities.
Woodland Indians.
East (U.S.) -- Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Birch, Jennifer, 1980- editor.
Thompson, Victor D., editor.
Other Form: Print version: Archaeology of villages in eastern North America. Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2018] 9781683400462 1683400461 (DLC) 2018000535 (OCoLC)1019840636
ISBN 9781683400530 (electronic book)
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1683400461