| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 257 pages). |
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| Series |
Issues in Eastern Woodlands archaeology
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Issues in Eastern Woodlands archaeology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-246) and index. |
| Contents |
Principles and principals -- A crisis in Mississippian archaeology -- Breaking the law of cultural dominance -- Parsing Mississippian chiefdoms -- The X factor -- Yoffee's rule and Cahokia -- What constitutes civilization? Community and control in the Southwest, Mexico, and Mesopotamia -- Truth, justice, and the archaeological way. |
| Summary |
In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively, engaging, and informed prose, Timothy Pauketat debunks much of this social-evolutionary theorizing about human development, as he ponders the evidence of "chiefdoms" left behind by the Mississippian cultureof the American southern heartland. This book challenges all students of history and prehis |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mississippian culture -- East (U.S.)
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Mississippian culture. |
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Indians of North America -- East (U.S.) -- Politics and government.
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Indians of North America. |
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Politics and government. |
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Chiefdoms -- East (U.S.) -- History.
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Chiefdoms. |
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History. |
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East (U.S.) -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
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Indians of North America -- Politics and government. |
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East United States. |
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HISTORY -- State & Local. |
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Chiefdoms and other archaeological delusions Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2007. 9780759108288 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2006101558 |
| ISBN |
9780759112506 ebook |
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0759112509 |
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9780759108288 cloth alkaline paper |
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0759108285 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780759108295 paperback alkaline paper |
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0759108293 paperback alkaline paper |
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