Author: Dale L. McElrathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Bottom (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The George Reeves Site (11-S-650)
Author: Dale L. McElrathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Bottom (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The George Reeves Site (11-S-650)
Author: Dale L. McElrathPublisher:
ISBN: 9780252010774
Category : American Bottom (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Holdener Site
Author: Warren L. WittryPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252064166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This report details the restricted usage, localized resource utilization, and brief occupation of this site during the seventh through eleventh centuries A.D.
The George Reeves Site (11-S-650)
Author: Dale L. McElrathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American Bottom (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Mississippian Community Organization
Author: Michael J. O'BrienPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0306471965
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The Powers Phase Project was a multiyear archaeological program undertaken in southeastern Missouri by the University of Michigan in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The project focused on the occupation of a large Pleistocene-age terrace in the Little Black River Lowland—a large expanse of lowlying land just east of the Ozark Highland—between roughly A. D. 1250 and A. D. 1400. The largest site in the region is Powers Fort—a palisaded mound center that - ceived archaeological attention as early as the late nineteenth century. Archa- logical surveys conducted south of Powers Fort in the 1960s revealed the pr- ence of numerous smaller sites of varying size that contained artifact assemblages similar to those from the larger center. Collectively the settlement aggregation became known as the Powers phase. Test excavations indicated that at least some of the smaller sites contained burned structures and that the burning had sealed household items on the floors below the collapsed architectural e- ments. Thus there appeared to be an opportunity to examine a late prehistoric settlement system to a degree not possible previously. Not only could the s- tial relation of communities in the system be ascertained, but the fact that str- tures within the communities had burned appeared to provide a unique opp- tunity to examine such things as differences in household items between and among structures and where various activities had occurred within a house. With these ideas in mind, James B. Griffin and James E.
Cahokia and the Hinterlands
Author: Thomas E. EmersonPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252068782
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Covering topics as diverse as economic modeling, craft specialization, settlement patterns, agricultural and subsistence systems, and the development of social ranking, Cahokia and the Hinterlands explores cultural interactions among Cahokians and the inhabitants of other population centers, including Orensdorf and the Dickson Mounds in Illinois and Aztalan in Wisconsin, as well as sites in Minnesota, Iowa, and at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Proposing sophisticated and innovative models for the growth, development, and decline of Mississippian culture at Cahokia and elsewhere, this volume also provides insight into the rise of chiefdoms and stratified societies and the development of trade throughout the world.
The Lohmann Site
Author: Duane EsareyPublisher: Illinois Transporatation Archaeological Research Program
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
One of the few documented excavations at an American Bottom single-mound Mississippian temple town that has provided revealing insights into town organization as well as evidence of specialized celt manufacturing.
The Land of Prehistory
Author: Alice Beck KehoePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134720653
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
First published in 1998. The Land of Prehistory reveals the powerful ideological function American archaeology has naively served, from the discipline's construction in Victorian societal reform movements to the present. Alice Beck Kehoe chronicles major movements and influences such as the support of racist Spencerian evolutionism and Manifest Destiny ideologies, and the 1960s New Archaeology pandering to Big Science money. She concludes with a discussion of the recent revolutionary shift to multicultural voices within the field.
Late Woodland Societies
Author: Thomas E. EmersonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803218215
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Archaeologists across the Midwest have pooled their data and perspectives to produce this indispensable volume on the Native cultures of the Late Woodland period (approximately A.D. 300?1000). Sandwiched between the well-known Hopewellian and Mississippian eras of monumental mound construction, theøLate Woodland period has received insufficient attention from archaeologists, who have frequently characterized it as consisting of relatively drab artifact assemblages. The close connections between this period and subsequent Mississippian and Fort Ancient societies, however, make it especially valuable for cross-cultural researchers. Understanding the cultural processes at work during the Late Woodland period will yield important clues about the long-term forces that stimulate and enhance social inequality. Late Woodland Societies is notable for its comprehensive geographic coverage; exhaustive presentation and discussion of sites, artifacts, and prehistoric cultural practices; and critical summaries of interpretive perspectives and trends in scholarship. The vast amount of information and theory brought together, examined, and synthesized by the contributors produces a detailed, coherent, and systematic picture of Late Woodland lifestyles across the Midwest. The Late Woodland can now be seen as a dynamic time in its own right and instrumental to the emergence of complex late prehistoric cultures across the Midwest and Southeast.
The Archaeology of Communities
Author: Marcello A. CanutoPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415222785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Using a broad comparitive approach this volume employs case studies from across the Americas to address the importance of the community in understanding ancient societies.