Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households / Elizabeth Watts Malouchos [and nine others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watts Malouchos, Elizabeth, 1984- author.

Series:

Archaeology of the American South.

Archaeology of the American South

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mississippian culture.

Indigenous people--Southern States--Antiquities.

Indigenous people--Southern States--Dwellings.

Local Subjects:

Indigenous people--Southern States--Antiquities.

Indigenous people--Southern States--Dwellings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University of Alabama Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Explores the archaeology of Mississippian households and communities using new data and advances in method and theory"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword | Gregory D. Wilson

Acknowledgments

Introduction | Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser

Part I. Articulating Communities and Households

1. Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households in Context | Elizabeth Watts Malouchos

2. Making Mounds, Making Mississippian Communities in Southern Illinois | Tamira K. Brennan

3. The Battle Mound Community: Interaction along the Red River and throughout the Caddo Homeland | Duncan P. McKinnon

4. Negotiating Community at Parchman Place, a Mississippian Town in the Northern Yazoo Basin | Erin S. Nelson

5. Mississippian Communities and Households from a Bird's-Eye View | Benjamin A. Steere

Part II. Coalescing and Conflicting Communities

6. Variability within a Mississippian Community: Houses, Cemeteries, and Corporate Groups at the Town Creek Site in the North Carolina Piedmont | Edmond A. Boudreaux III, Paige A. Ford, and Heidi A. de Gregory

7. Mississippian Communities of Conflict | Meghan E. Buchanan and Melissa R. Baltus

Part III. Community and Cosmos

8. Households, Communities, and the Early History of Etowah | Adam King

9. Unpacking Storage: Implications for Community-Making during Cahokia's Mississippian Transition | Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser

10. The Social Lives and Symbolism of Cherokee Houses and Townhouses | Christopher B. Rodning and Amber R. Thorpe

Part IV. Movement, Memory, and Histories

11. Moving to Where the River Meets the Sea: Origins of the Mill Cove Complex | Keith Ashley

12. Resilience in Late Moundville's Economy | Jera R. Davis

13. Multiscalar Community Histories in the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley: Migration and Aggregation at Singer-Moye | Stefan Brannan and Jennifer Birch.

Commentary. The Archaeology of Mississippian Communities and Households: Looking Back, Looking Forward | Jason Yaeger

References Cited

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-9346-3

OCLC:

1245579723