From quarry to cornfield : the political economy of Mississippian hoe production / Charles R. Cobb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cobb, Charles R. (Charles Richard), 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hoes, Prehistoric--Mississippi River Valley.

Hoes, Prehistoric.

Mississippian culture.

Indians of North America--Illinois--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Mill Creek Site (Ill.).

Illinois--Antiquities.

Illinois.

Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities.

Mississippi River Valley.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Quarry to Cornfield provides an innovative model for examining the technology of hoe production and its contribution to the agriculture of Mississippian communities. Lithic specialist Charles Cobb examines the political economy in Mississippian communities through a case study of raw material procurement and hoe production and usage at the Mill Creek site on Dillow Ridge in southwest Illinois. Cobb outlines the day-to-day activities in a Mississippian chiefdom village that flourished from about A.D. 1250 to 1500. In so doing, he provides a fascinating window

Contents:

A day in the life

Specialization, exchange, and power in small-scale societies and chiefdoms

Exchanging chert, consuming chert

Rethinking the organization of lithic technology

Life in the Mississippian uplands

The regional structure of Hoe production

Hoe production and the domestic economy

Production and power: defining scales.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-249) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8343-3

OCLC:

648711527