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The archaeology of everyday life at early Moundville /
Complex Mississippian polities were neither developed nor sustained in a vacuum. A broad range of small-scale social groups played a variety of roles in the emergence of regionally organized political hierarchies that governed large-scale ceremonial centers. Recent research has revealed the extent t...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2008.
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| Series: | Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Complex Mississippian polities were neither developed nor sustained in a vacuum. A broad range of small-scale social groups played a variety of roles in the emergence of regionally organized political hierarchies that governed large-scale ceremonial centers. Recent research has revealed the extent to which interactions among corporately organized clans led to the development, success, and collapse of Moundville. These insights into Moundville's social complexity are based primarily on the study of monumental architecture and mortuary ceremonialism. Less is known about how everyday domestic pra. |
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| Item Description: | "A Dan Josselyn memorial publication"--Preliminary page |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 171 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-168) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817382346 0817382348 |