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Mound excavations at Moundville : architecture, elites, and social order / Vernon James Knight, Jr. ; with a contribution by H. Edwin Jackson and Susan L. Scott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Knight, Vernon J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Alabama--Moundville.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Mounds--Alabama--Moundville.
- Mounds.
- Architecture--Alabama--Moundville--History.
- Architecture.
- Elite (Social sciences)--Alabama--Moundville--History.
- Elite (Social sciences).
- Social archaeology--Alabama--Moundville.
- Social archaeology.
- Indians of North America--Alabama--Moundville--Antiquities.
- Indians of North America.
- Mississippian culture--Alabama--Moundville.
- Mississippian culture.
- Moundville (Ala.)--Antiquities.
- Moundville (Ala.).
- Moundville Archaeological Park (Moundville, Ala.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (426 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How social and political power was wielded in order to build Moundville This work is a state-of-the-art, data-rich study of excavations undertaken at the Moundville site in west central Alabama, one of the largest and most complex of the mound sites of pre-contact North America. Despite the site's importance and sustained attention by researchers, until now it has lacked a comprehensive analysis of its modern excavations. Richly documented by maps, artifact photo-graphs, profiles of strata, and inventories of materials found, the present work explores one expression
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction to the Mound Excavations, 1989-1998; 2. Chronology, Units of Content, and Pottery Classification; 3. Classification of Objects Other than Pottery; 4. Excavations in Mound Q; 5. Excavations in Mound E; 6. Excavations in Mounds P, R, F, G, and A; 7. Collections from Mounds B, H, I, J, K, L, and M; 8. Zooarchaeology of the Moundville Elite H. Edwin Jackson and Susan L. Scott; 9. Comparative Analysis and Conclusions; Appendix 1. Botanical Remains from Mounds Q and G; Appendix 2. Inventory of Features, Mounds Q and E
- Appendix 3. Catalog Numbers of Illustrated ArtifactsAppendix 4. Those Who Did the Work; References Cited; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8151-1
- OCLC:
- 664233650
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