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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : continuist and discontinuist histories -- The incomplete debunking of the mound builder mythology -- Unitary polities and dual heterarchies : apprehending social systems from alternative perspectives -- The dual complementary heterarchical community/cult sodality heterarchy model -- The symbolic pragmatic model of style and the custodial franchising of sacred bundles -- The world renewal mortuary model : the postmortem human sacrificial chaîne opératoire mortuary trajectory -- Settlement, subsistence, and ceremonialism : the deontic ecology of the prehistoric Eastern Woodlands -- The dissolution of a transregional second-order Hopewellian ceremonial sphere -- Community polities or dual heterarchies : extreme displaced mortuary depositions and demonstrating the "best fit" truth -- The emergence of the complementary heterarchical chiefdom community : singular-selective candidature practice -- The emergence of vacant quarters and the late prehistoric period -- post-late prehistoric period transition -- The Lower Chattahoochee River Valley : a primary Southeastern Mississippian ceremonial sphere -- The late prehistoric period Savannah River Valley : a first-order Southern Appalachian complicated-stamped ceremonial sphere -- The Etowah site of the Etowah River Valley late prehistoric period : paramount chiefdom polity or dispersed third-order cult sodality heterarchy? -- The formation and transformation of mound C of the Etowah site -- Conclusion : the real mound builder social world. |
| Summary |
"The Real Mound Builders of North America contrasts the dominant evolutionary view that emphasizes abrupt discontinuities with the Hopewellian ceremonial assemblage and mounds. Byers argues that these communities persisted unchanged in terms of their essential social structures and cultural traditions, varying only in terms of ceremonial practices that manifested these deep structures"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mound-builders -- East (U.S.)
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Mound-builders. |
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Mound-builders -- Canada, Eastern.
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Eastern Canada. |
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Woodland Indians -- History.
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Woodland Indians. |
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History. |
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Woodland Indians -- Antiquities.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) |
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Woodland Indians -- Antiquities. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) |
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East United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Byers, A. Martin, 1937- author. Real mound builders of North America Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017] 9781498570626 (DLC) 2017056675 |
| ISBN |
9781498570633 (epub) |
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1498570631 |
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9781498570626 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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9781498570640 |
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1498570623 |
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