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Sunwatch : Fort Ancient development in the Mississippian world / Robert A. Cook.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cook, Robert A. (Robert Allen), 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fort Ancient culture--Ohio River Valley.
- Fort Ancient culture.
- Mississippian culture--Ohio River Valley.
- Mississippian culture.
- Social archaeology--Ohio River Valley.
- Social archaeology.
- Sunwatch Site (Dayton, Ohio).
- Ohio River Valley--Antiquities.
- Ohio River Valley.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The last prehistoric cultures to inhabit the Middle Ohio Valley (ca. A.D. 1000-1650) are referred to as Fort Ancient societies, which exhibited a wide variety of Mississippian period characteristics. What is less well-known and little understood are the social processes by which Mississippian characteristics spread to Fort Ancient communities. Through a comprehensive study of SunWatch, one of the few thoroughly excavated Fort Ancient settlements, the author focuses on the development of village social structure within a broad geographic and temporal framework, recognizing border areas as
- Contents:
- To be Mississippian or not to be Mississippian?
- Fort Ancient and the range of Mississippian social complexity
- An approach to the problem
- Corporate behavior in space and time
- Development of village leadership
- Periphery peers
- A model of Fort Ancient village development.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-182) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8177-5
- OCLC:
- 609852662
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