The Mississippian emergence / edited by Bruce D. Smith ; with a new preface by the author.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Bruce D. (Bruce David), 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mississippian culture.

Indians of North America--Southern States--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities.

Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities.

Mississippi River Valley.

Southern States--Antiquities.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection, addressing a topic of ongoing interest and debate in American archaeology, examines the evolution of ranked chiefdoms in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States during the period A.D. 700-1200. The volume brings together a broad range of professionals engaged in the fieldwork that has vitalized the theoretical debates on the development of Mississippi Valley cultures. The initial chapter provides a general discussion of various explanations for the rise of these distinctive ranked societies in the eastern United States (A.D. 750-1050) and sets the stage for the inte

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Powell Canal: Baytown Period Adaption on Bayou Macon, Southeast Arkansas; 3. The Totec mounds Site: A Ceremonial Center in the Arkansas River Lowland; 4. The Zebree Siter: An Emerged Early Mississippian Experession in Northeast Arkansas; 5. Range Site Community Patterns and the Mississippian Emergence; 6. The Emergence of Mississippian Culture in the American Bottom Region; 7. Emergent Mississipian in the Central Mississippi Valley; 8. Explaining Mississippian Origins in Est Tennessee

9. Emergence in West-Central Alabama10u. Mississippian Emergence in the Fort Walton Area: The Evolution of the Cayson and Lake Jackson Phases; 11. Trade and the Evolution of Relations at the Beginning of the Mississipiain Period.

Notes:

Originally published: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. With new pref.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8173-8430-8

OCLC:

664233653