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1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index. |
Contents |
Pre-A.D. 1400 Mississippian regional centers, Angel's collapse, and Caborn-Welborn developments in the lower Ohio River Valley -- Ceramic descriptions -- Site types and their spatial distribution -- Temporal trends -- Cultural and functional ceramic patterns -- Interpretations and conclusions. |
Summary |
An important case study of chiefdom collapse and societal reemergence. Caborn-Welborn, a late Mississippian (A.D. 1400?) farming society centered at the confluence of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers (in what is now southwestern Indiana, southeastern Illinois, and northwestern Kentucky), developed following the collapse of the Angel chiefdom (A.D. 1000?). Using ceramic and settlement data, David Pollack examines the ways in which that new society reconstructed social, political, and economic relationships from the remnants of the Angel chiefdom. Unlike most instances of the demise of a complex socie. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Mississippian culture -- Ohio River Valley.
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Mississippian culture. |
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Ohio River Valley. |
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Mississippian culture -- Wabash River Valley.
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Mississippian pottery -- Ohio River Valley.
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Mississippian pottery. |
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Mississippian pottery -- Wabash River Valley.
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Chiefdoms -- Ohio River Valley.
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Chiefdoms. |
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Chiefdoms -- Wabash River Valley.
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Ohio River Valley.
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Wabash River Valley.
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Ohio River Valley -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
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Wabash River Valley -- Antiquities.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Pollack, David, 1951- Caborn-Welborn. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2004 (DLC) 2004000653 |
ISBN |
9780817382230 (electronic book) |
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0817382232 (electronic book) |
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0817351264 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0817314199 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817351267 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817314194 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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