King [electronic resource] : the social archaeology of a late Mississippian town in northwestern Georgia / David J. Hally.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hally, David J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Georgia--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Social archaeology--Georgia.

Social archaeology.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Georgia.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Mississippian culture--Georgia.

Mississippian culture.

Indians of North America--Georgia--Social conditions--16th century.

Social status--Georgia--History--16th century.

Social status.

Households--Georgia--History--16th century.

Households.

Community life--Georgia--History--16th century.

Community life.

Spaniards--Georgia--History--16th century.

Spaniards.

King Site (Ga.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (616 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the time of Spanish contact in A.D. 1540, the Mississippian inhabitants of the great valley in northwestern Georgia and adjacent portions of Alabama and Tennessee were organized into a number of chiefdom's distributed along the Coosa and Tennessee rivers and their major tributaries. The administrative centers of these polities were large settlements with one or more platforms mounds and a plaza. Each had a large resident population, but most polity members lived in a half dozen or so towns located within a day's walk of the center. This book is about one such town, located on the

Contents:

The nature of Mississippian society

The natural, cultural, and historical context of the King Site

Site excavations

Domestic architecture

Public architecture

Burial descriptions

Household and community

Analysis of burial attribute associations

Artifact co-occurrences

Artifact co-occurrences among adult males

Community and polity in northwestern Georgia

Contents of accompanying compact disc: Appendix A: Description of primary domestic structures; Appendix B: Description of rectangular structures; Appendix C: Burial data; Appendix D: Stratigraphic characteristics of disturbed, intrusive, and multiple burials; Appendix E: Age and sex identification of burials; Appendix F: Burial assignment of grave goods in multiple and intrusive burials; Appendix G: Location of burials; Appendix H: Location of postholes and features.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-573) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8121-X

OCLC:

567999132