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Caborn-Welborn : constructing a new society after the Angel Chiefdom collapse / David Pollack.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pollack, David, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mississippian culture--Ohio River Valley.
- Mississippian culture.
- Mississippian culture--Wabash River Valley.
- Mississippian pottery--Ohio River Valley.
- Mississippian pottery.
- Mississippian pottery--Wabash River Valley.
- Chiefdoms--Ohio River Valley.
- Chiefdoms.
- Chiefdoms--Wabash River Valley.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Ohio River Valley.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Wabash River Valley.
- Ohio River Valley--Antiquities.
- Ohio River Valley.
- Wabash River Valley--Antiquities.
- Wabash River Valley.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Pre-A.D. 1400 Mississippian Regional Centers, Angel's Collapse, and Caborn-Welborn Developments in the Lower Ohio River Valley; 3. Ceramic Descriptions; 4. Site Types and Their Spatial Distribution; 5. Temporal Trends; 6. Cultural and Functional Ceramic Patterns; 7. Interpretations and Conclusions; References Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8223-2
- OCLC:
- 320323782
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