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Author Pollack, David, 1951-

Title Caborn-Welborn : constructing a new society after the Angel Chiefdom collapse / David Pollack
Published Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Pre-A.D. 1400 Mississippian regional centers, Angel's collapse, and Caborn-Welborn developments in the lower Ohio River Valley -- Ceramic descriptions -- Site types and their spatial distribution -- Temporal trends -- Cultural and functional ceramic patterns -- Interpretations and conclusions
Summary An important case study of chiefdom collapse and societal reemergence. Caborn-Welborn, a late Mississippian (A.D. 1400?) farming society centered at the confluence of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers (in what is now southwestern Indiana, southeastern Illinois, and northwestern Kentucky), developed following the collapse of the Angel chiefdom (A.D. 1000?). Using ceramic and settlement data, David Pollack examines the ways in which that new society reconstructed social, political, and economic relationships from the remnants of the Angel chiefdom. Unlike most instances of the demise of a complex socie
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mississippian culture -- Ohio River Valley
Mississippian culture -- Wabash River Valley
Mississippian pottery -- Ohio River Valley
Mississippian pottery -- Wabash River Valley
Chiefdoms -- Ohio River Valley
Chiefdoms -- Wabash River Valley
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Ohio River Valley
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Wabash River Valley
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Antiquities
Chiefdoms
Excavations (Archaeology)
Mississippian culture
Mississippian pottery
SUBJECT Ohio River Valley -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87001201
Wabash River Valley -- Antiquities
Subject Ohio River Valley
United States -- Wabash River Valley
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004000653
ISBN 9780817382230
0817382232