| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 257 p.) |
| Series |
Issues in Eastern Woodlands archaeology |
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Issues in Eastern Woodlands archaeology.
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| 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 (p. 213-246) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Mississippian culture -- East (U.S.)
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Indians of North America -- East (U.S.) -- Politics and government
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Chiefdoms -- East (U.S.) -- History
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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Antiquities
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Chiefdoms
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Indians of North America -- Politics and government
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Mississippian culture
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| SUBJECT |
East (U.S.) -- Antiquities
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| Subject |
East United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020740120 |
| ISBN |
9780759112506 |
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0759112509 |
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