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Author Means, Bernard K. (Bernard Klaus), 1964-

Title Circular villages of the Monongahela tradition / Bernard K. Means.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 196 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-187) and index.
Contents Village spatial layouts and social organizations -- A review of the late prehistoric Monongahela tradition and the new chronology for Allegheny Mountains villages -- Villages, communities, and social organizations -- Building models of village spatial and social organizations -- Models and hypotheses related to community organization -- Data sources, variables, and analytical approaches -- Modeling community patterning from select village components in the Allegheny Mountains region -- Comparative analyses from modeling individual village components -- Implications drawn from interpreting community organization through village spatial layouts.
Summary Between A.D. 1000 and 1635, the inhabitants of southwestern Pennsylvania and portions of adjacent states & mdash;known to archaeologists as the Monongahela Culture or Tradition & mdash;began to reside regularly in ring-shaped village settlements. These circular settlements consisted of dwellings around a central plaza. A cross-cultural and cross-temporal review of archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic cases demonstrates that this settlement form appeared repeatedly and independently worldwide, including throughout portions of the Eastern Woodlands, among the Plains Indians, and in Cent.
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Subject Indians of North America -- Dwellings -- Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America -- Dwellings.
Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America -- Dwellings -- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Indian architecture -- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Indian architecture.
Central-plan buildings -- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Central-plan buildings.
Land settlement patterns -- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Land settlement patterns.
Social archaeology -- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Social archaeology.
Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) -- Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Means, Bernard K. (Bernard Klaus), 1964- Circular villages of the Monongahela tradition. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2007 9780817315733 081731573X (DLC) 2006102622 (OCoLC)77494487
ISBN 9780817380496 (electronic book)
0817380493 (electronic book)
9780817315733 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
081731573X
9780817354381 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0817354387