The archaeology of villages in eastern North America / edited by Jennifer Birch and Victor D. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Victor D., author.

Contributor:

Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

Birch, Jennifer, 1980- editor.

Series:

Ripley P. Bullen series

Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woodland Indians.

Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

East (U.S.)--Antiquities.

East (U.S.).

East United States.

Indians of North America--East (U.S.)--Antiquities.

Woodland Indians--East (U.S.)--Antiquities.

Indians of North America--Antiquities.

Woodland Indians--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xvii, 211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2018]

Summary:

This volume highlights the similarities and differences in the historical trajectories of village formation and development in eastern North America, as well as the larger processes by which villages have the power to affect large-scale social transformations. Contributors to this volume employ archaeological and historical evidence to explore the development of villages among eastern North American societies of the deep and recent past.

Contents:

Foreword: Crafting community and identity in the Eastern Woodlands / David G. Anderson

The power of villages / Victor D. Thompson and Jennifer Birch

Collective action and village life during the late archaic on the Georgia coast / Victor D. Thompson

Powers of place in the predestined Middle Woodland village / Neill Wallis

Size matters: Kolomoki (9ER1) and the power of the hypertrophic village / Shaun E. West, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, and Martin Menz

When villages do not form: a case study from the Piedmont Village tradition-Mississippian borderlands, AD 1200-1600 / Eric E. Jones

Initial northern Iroquoian coalescence / Jennifer Birch and Ronald F. Williamson

The path to the council house: the development of Mississippian communities in southeast Tennessee / Lynne E. Sullivan

The village remains the same: a Fort Ancient example / Robert A. Cook

Population aggregation and the emergence of circular villages in southwest Virginia / Richard W. Jeffries

The power of Powhatan towns: socializing manitou in the Algonquian Chesapeake / Martin D. Gallivan, Christopher J. Shephard, and Jessica A. Jenkins

From nucleated villages to dispersed networks: transformations in Seneca Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) community structure, circa AD 1669-1779 / Kurt A. Jordan

It took a Childe to raze the village / Charles R. Cobb.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.

ISBN:

9781683400462

1683400461

OCLC:

1019840636

Publisher Number:

99978479734