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Author Pauketat, Timothy R.

Title Chiefdoms and other archaeological delusions / Timothy R. Pauketat
Published Lanham : AltaMira Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 257 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Issues in Eastern Woodlands archaeology
Issues in Eastern Woodlands archaeology.
Contents Principles and principals -- A crisis in Mississippian archaeology -- Breaking the law of cultural dominance -- Parsing Mississippian chiefdoms -- The X factor -- Yoffee's rule and Cahokia -- What constitutes civilization? Community and control in the Southwest, Mexico, and Mesopotamia -- Truth, justice, and the archaeological way
Summary In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively, engaging, and informed prose, Timothy Pauketat debunks much of this social-evolutionary theorizing about human development, as he ponders the evidence of "chiefdoms" left behind by the Mississippian cultureof the American southern heartland. This book challenges all students of history and prehis
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-246) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mississippian culture -- East (U.S.)
Indians of North America -- East (U.S.) -- Politics and government
Chiefdoms -- East (U.S.) -- History
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Antiquities.
Chiefdoms.
Indians of North America -- Politics and government.
Mississippian culture.
SUBJECT East (U.S.) -- Antiquities
Subject East United States.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780759112506
0759112509