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Author Hally, David J.

Title King : the social archaeology of a late Mississippian town in northwestern Georgia / David J. Hally.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Contents The nature of Mississippian society -- The natural, cultural, and historical context of the King Site -- Site excavations -- Domestic architecture -- Public architecture -- Burial descriptions -- Household and community -- Analysis of burial attribute associations -- Artifact co-occurrences -- Artifact co-occurrences among adult males -- Community and polity in northwestern Georgia -- Contents of accompanying compact disc: Appendix A: Description of primary domestic structures; Appendix B: Description of rectangular structures; Appendix C: Burial data; Appendix D: Stratigraphic characteristics of disturbed, intrusive, and multiple burials; Appendix E: Age and sex identification of burials; Appendix F: Burial assignment of grave goods in multiple and intrusive burials; Appendix G: Location of burials; Appendix H: Location of postholes and features.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-573) and index.
Summary At the time of Spanish contact in AD 1540, the Mississippian inhabitants in north-western Georgia and adjacent portions of Alabama and Tennessee were organized into a number of chiefdoms distributed along the Coosa and Tennessee rivers and their major tributaries. This book is about one such town, known to archaeologists as the King site.
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Subject Indians of North America -- Georgia -- Antiquities.
Indians of North America.
Georgia.
Antiquities.
Social archaeology -- Georgia.
Social archaeology.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Georgia.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Mississippian culture -- Georgia.
Mississippian culture.
King Site (Ga.)
Chronological Term 1500-1599
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Computer network resources.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Hally, David J. King. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007050784
ISBN 9780817381219 (electronic)
081738121X (electronic)
0817354603 (Mixed Media)
9780817354602 (Mixed Media)
0817316043 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780817316044 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780817316044 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780817354602 (paper ; alkaline paper)