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1 online resource (viii, 196 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Indians of North America -- Dwellings -- Pennsylvania.
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Indians of North America -- Dwellings. |
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Pennsylvania. |
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Indians of North America -- Dwellings -- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
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Indian architecture -- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
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Indian architecture. |
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Central-plan buildings -- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
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Central-plan buildings. |
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Land settlement patterns -- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
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Land settlement patterns. |
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Social archaeology -- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
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Social archaeology. |
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Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) -- Antiquities.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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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) |
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0817380493 (electronic book) |
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9780817315733 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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081731573X |
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9780817354381 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0817354387 |
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