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Lamar archaeology : Mississippian chiefdoms in the deep South / edited by Mark Williams and Gary Shapiro.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lamar culture.
- Indians of North America--Southern States--Antiquities.
- Indians of North America.
- Chiefdoms--Southern States.
- Chiefdoms.
- Southern States--Antiquities.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication Lamar Archaeology provides a comprehensive and detailed review of our knowledge of the late prehistoric Indian societies in the Southern Appalachian area and its peripheries. These Lamar societies were chiefdom-level groups who built most of the mounds in this large region and were ancestors of later tribes, including the Creeks and Cherokees. This book begins with a history of the last 50 years of archaeological and historical research and brings together for the first time all the available data on this early culture
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Lamar archaeology
- pt. 2. Time and space
- pt. 3. Case studies.
- Notes:
- "A Dan Josselyn memorial publication."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8385-9
- 0-585-32338-0
- OCLC:
- 817893189
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