What happened at the flashpoint? Conjectures on chiefdom formation at the very moment of conception / Robert L. Carneiro -- Less than meets the eye: evidence for protohistoric chiefdoms in Northern New Mexico / Winifred Creamer and Jonathan Haas -- In war and peace: alternative paths to centralized leadership / Elsa M. Redmond -- Investigating the development of Venezuelan chiefdoms / Charles S. Spencer -- Tupinambá chiefdoms? / William C. Sturtevant -- Colonial chieftains of the Lower Orinoco and Guayana Coast / Neil L. Whitehead -- War and theocracy / Pita Kelekna -- The Muisca: chiefdoms in transition / Doris Kurella -- Social foundations of Taino Caciques / William Keegan, Morgan Maclachlan, and Bryan Byrne -- Native chiefdoms and the exercise of complexity in sixteen-century Florida / Jerald T. Milanich -- The evolution of the Powhatan paramount chiefdom in Virginia / Helen C. Rountree and E. Randolph Turner III
Notes
This volume is largely derived from the symposium of the International Congress of Americanists
