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1 online resource (xv, pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-364) and index. |
| Contents |
Big mounds, big rings, big power / Jon L. Gibson and Philip J. Carr -- Late archaic fisher-foragers in the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee Valley, northwest Florida-south Georgia/Alabama / Nancy Marie White -- Measuring shell rings for social inequality / Michael Russo -- Regional-scale interaction networks and the emergence of cultural complexity along the northern margins of the Southeast / Richard W. Jefferies -- The Green River in comparison to the Lower Mississippi Valley during the archaic: to build mounds or not to build mounds? / George M. Crothers -- Cultural complexity in the middle archaic of Mississippi / Samuel O. Brookes -- The Burkett Site (23MI20): implications for cultural complexity and origins / Prentice M. Thomas, Jr., L. Janice Campbell, and James R. Morehead -- Poverty Point chipped-stone tool raw materials: inferring social and economic strategies / Philip J. Carr and Lee H. Stewart -- Are we fixing to make the same mistake again? / Joe Saunders -- Surrounding the sacred: geometry and design of early mound groups as meaning and function / John E. Clark -- Crossing the symbolic Rubicon in the Southeast / Kenneth E. Sassaman and Michael J. Heckenberger -- Explaining sociopolitical complexity in the foraging adaptations of the southeastern United States: the roles of demography, kinship, and ecology in sociocultural evolution / Randolph J. Widmer -- The power of beneficent obligation in first mound-building societies / Jon L. Gibson -- Archaic mounds and the archeology of southeastern tribal societies / David G. Anderson -- Old mounds, ancient hunter-gatherers, and modern archaeologists / George R. Milner. |
| Summary |
Traces the sources of power and large-scale organization of prehistoric peoples among Archaic societies. By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this book explores the sources of power and organization among Archaic societies. It investigates the origins of these technologies and their effects on long-term (evolutionary) and short-term (historical) change. The characteristics of first origins in social complexity belong to 5,000- to 6,000-year-old Archaic. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mounds -- Southern States.
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Mounds. |
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Southern States. |
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Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Antiquities.
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Indians of North America. |
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Antiquities. |
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Southern States -- Antiquities.
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Electronic books.
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Gibson, Jon L.
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Carr, Philip J., 1966-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Signs of power. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004 0817313915 9780817313913 (DLC) 2003023968 (OCoLC)53374816 |
| ISBN |
9780817382797 (electronic book) |
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0817382798 (electronic book) |
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9780817313913 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0817313915 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817350857 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0817350853 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0817313915 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0817350853 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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