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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Dwellings--Pennsylvania.

Indians of North America.

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.

Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between A.D. 1000 and 1635, the inhabitants of southwestern Pennsylvania and portions of adjacent states-known to archaeologists as the Monongahela Culture or Tradition-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 Central and

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-187) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8049-3

OCLC:

182560644