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King : the social archaeology of a late Mississippian town in northwestern Georgia /
At the time of Spanish contact in AD 1540, the Mississippian inhabitants in north-western Georgia and adjacent portions of Alabama and Tennessee were organized into a number of chiefdoms distributed along the Coosa and Tennessee rivers and their major tributaries. This book is about one such town, k...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The nature of Mississippian society
- The natural, cultural, and historical context of the King Site
- Site excavations
- Domestic architecture
- Public architecture
- Burial descriptions
- Household and community
- Analysis of burial attribute associations
- Artifact co-occurrences
- Artifact co-occurrences among adult males
- Community and polity in northwestern Georgia
- Contents of accompanying compact disc: Appendix A: Description of primary domestic structures; Appendix B: Description of rectangular structures; Appendix C: Burial data; Appendix D: Stratigraphic characteristics of disturbed, intrusive, and multiple burials; Appendix E: Age and sex identification of burials; Appendix F: Burial assignment of grave goods in multiple and intrusive burials; Appendix G: Location of burials; Appendix H: Location of postholes and features.