Mississippian polity and politics on the Gulf Coastal Plain : a view from the Pearl River, Mississippi / Patrick C. Livingood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Livingood, Patrick C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mississippian culture--Pearl River Valley (Miss. and La.).

Mississippian culture.

Mounds--Pearl River Valley (Miss. and La.).

Mounds.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Pearl River Valley (Miss. and La.).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Pevey Site (Miss.).

Lowe-Steen Site (Miss.).

Pearl River Valley (Miss. and La.)--Antiquities.

Pearl River Valley (Miss. and La.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The definition of the regional limits of chiefly influence during the Mississippian period in the southeastern United States remains unresolved. In the Gulf Coastal Plain between the Mississippi and Black Warrior rivers, some studies have explored the role that interpolity interactions played in influencing a polity's social and political complexity through time. It has been argued that the larger, more complex polities were able to preempt the development of more complex political structures among the smaller polities. Using research at the Pevey (22Lw510) a

Contents:

The nature of Mississippian interpolity competition

Archaeology of the Middle Pearl River

Investigation of the settlement patterns of the Pevey polity

Temper and culture : ceramic analysis

Analyses of foodways and of other artifact classes

Interpretations of the Middle Pearl Mississippian

Regional analysis and interpolity competition

Appendix 1. Ceramic types and counts

Appendix 2. Macrofaunal analysis from two units at the Pevey site.

Notes:

"A Dan Josselyn memorial publication."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8512-6

OCLC:

772459210