Moundville's Economy.
A Dan Josselyn Memorial PublicationAnthropologists have long talked about chiefdoms as a form of sociopolitical organization, and for several decades Elman Service's description of chiefdoms has been widely accepted as definitive. Nevertheless, in the 1970s, scholars began to question whether a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Alabama :
University of Alabama Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical Background; Introduction; Redistribution; Alternative Models; Conclusion; 3. The Test Case; The Moundville Chiefdom; Previous Investigations at the White Site; 1983 Excavations at the White Site; Data Used in the Analysis; 4. Subsistence; Introduction; Fauna; Plant Exploitation; Conclusion; 5. Craft Production; Introduction; Ceramics; Stone Tools; Other Craft Items; Items of Known Nonlocal Manufacture; Conclusion; 6. Structure and Operation of Moundville's Economy.
- Production and Distribution in the Moundville EconomyExternal Relations of the Moundville Chiefdom; Dynamics of the Moundville Economy; Conclusion; 7. Conclusion; References Cited; Index.