Continuity and change in the Native American village : multicultural origins and descendants of the Fort Ancient Culture / Robert A. Cook, The Ohio State University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cook, Robert A. (Robert Allan), 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Ohio River Valley.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Ohio River Valley--Antiquities.

Ohio River Valley.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 284 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Two common questions asked in archaeological investigations are: where did a particular culture come from, and which living cultures is it related to? In this book, Robert A. Cook brings a theoretically and methodologically holistic perspective to his study on the origins and continuity of Native American villages in the North American Midcontinent. He shows that to affiliate archaeological remains with descendant communities fully we need to unaffiliate some of our well-established archaeological constructs. Cook demonstrates how and why Native American villages formed and responded to events such as migration, environment and agricultural developments. He focuses on the big picture of cultural relatedness over broad regions and the amount of social detail that can be gleaned from archaeological and biological data, as well as oral histories.

Contents:

The Fort Ancient "savage slot" and its descendants

The For Ancient culture : reconstructing an archaeological tradition

The general and the specific : combining theories of culture process and history

The study region : "a most delightful country"

Worlds colliding : Mississippian punctuations and woodland continuities

Hybrid villagers : becoming people of the earth and sky

Coalescence and descendance : the persistence of the village form

Multicultural processes and histories.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-50575-9

1-108-51320-4

1-108-51469-3

1-108-51618-1

1-108-52363-3

1-107-33922-7

1-108-51767-6