Center places and Cherokee towns : archaeological perspectives on Native American architecture and landscape in the Southern Appalachians / Christopher B. Rodning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodning, Christopher Bernard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cherokee Indians--Appalachian Region, Southern--Antiquities.

Cherokee Indians.

Cherokee Indians--History.

Extinct cities--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Extinct cities.

Indians of North America--Appalachian Region, Southern--Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Antiquities.

Appalachian Region, Southern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, AL : The University of Alabama Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Center Places and Cherokee Towns, Christopher B. Rodning opens a panoramic vista onto protohistoric Cherokee culture. He posits that Cherokee households and towns were anchored within their cultural and natural landscapes by built features that acted as "center places."Rodning investigates the period from just before the first Spanish contact with sixteenth-century Native American chiefdoms in La Florida through the development of formal trade relations between Native American societies and English and French colonial provinces in the American South during the late 1600's and 1700's. Rodning

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. The Middle Cherokee Town at Coweeta Creek; 2. Mounds, Townhouses, and Cherokee Towns; 3. Public Architecture; 4. Domestic Architecture; 5. Hearths; 6. Burials; 7. Abandonment of the Coweeta Creek Site; 8. Center Places in the Cherokee Landscape; References Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780817387723

0817387722

OCLC:

911665863