Etowah : the political history of a chiefdom capital /

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This is a detailed reconstruction of the waxing and waning of political fortunes among the chiefly elites at an important center of the prehistoric world. At the time the first Europeans arrived in the New World, thousands of earthen platform mounds dotted the landscape of eastern North America. Onl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: King, Adam, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Mississippian culture > Georgia > Etowah River Valley.
Chiefdoms > Georgia > Etowah River Valley.
Mississippian pottery > Georgia > Etowah River Valley.
Social archaeology > Georgia > Etowah River Valley.
HISTORY > State & Local.
Antiquities.
Chiefdoms.
Mississippian culture.
Mississippian pottery.
Social archaeology.
Etowah Indian Mound State Historic Site (Ga.)
Etowah River Valley (Ga.) > Antiquities.
Georgia > Etowah Indian Mound State Historic Site.
Georgia > Etowah River Valley.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This is a detailed reconstruction of the waxing and waning of political fortunes among the chiefly elites at an important center of the prehistoric world. At the time the first Europeans arrived in the New World, thousands of earthen platform mounds dotted the landscape of eastern North America. Only a few of the mound sites have survived the ravages of time and the devastation of pilferers; one of these valuable monuments is Etowah, located near Cartersville in northern Georgia. Over a period of more than 100 years, excavations of the site's six mounds--and in particular Mound C--has yielded.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (ix, 178 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-174) and index.
ISBN:9780817382001
0817382003
0817312234
9780817312237

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