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Author Buchanan, Meghan E., 1981- author.

Title Life in a Mississippian Warscape : Common Field, Cahokia, and the Effects of Warfare / Meghan E. Buchanan
Published Grand Rapids : University of Alabama Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (x, 182 pages)
Series Archaeology of the American South: new directions and perspectives
Archaeology of the American South.
Contents Introduction: The Fog of War -- Making War -- Mississippian Warscapes: Approaches to and Histories of Mississippian Warfare -- The Common Field Site: Context and Regional Culture History -- Common Field, Common Lives?: Results of Analysis -- Life, Death, and Destruction in a Mississippian Warscape -- Big Histories, Small Practices
Summary Analyzes Mississippian daily life at Cahokia's environs during wartime In Life in a Mississippian Warscape: Common Field, Cahokia, and the Effects of Warfare Meghan E. Buchanan posits that to understand the big histories of warfare, political fragmentation, and resilience in the past archaeologists must also analyze and interpret the microscale actions of the past. These are the daily activities of people before, during, and after historical events. Within warscapes, battles take place in peoples' front yards, family members die, and the impacts of violence in near and distant places are experienced on a daily basis. This book explores the microscale of daily lives of people living at Common Field, a large, palisaded mound center, during the period of Cahokia's abandonment and the spread of violence and warfare throughout the Southeast. Linking together ethnographic, historic, and archaeological sources, Buchanan discusses the evidence that the people of Common Field engaged in novel and hybrid practices in these dangerous times. At the microscale, they adopted new ceramic tempering techniques, produced large numbers of serving vessels decorated with warfare-related imagery, adapted their food practices, and erected a substantial palisade with specially prepared deposits. The overall picture that emerges at Common Field is of a people who engaged in risk-averse practices that minimized their exposure to outside of the palisade and attempted to seek intercession from otherworldly realms through public ceremonies involving warfare-related iconography
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Mississippian culture -- Missouri
Indians of North America -- Wars -- Missouri
Indians of North America -- Missouri -- Common Field Site -- Antiquities
Warfare, Prehistoric -- Missouri -- Common Field Site
Antiquities
Indians of North America -- Antiquities
Indians of North America -- Wars
Mississippian culture
Warfare, Prehistoric
SUBJECT Common Field Site (Mo.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2022005584
Sainte Genevieve County (Mo.) -- Antiquities
Subject Missouri
Missouri -- Common Field Site
Missouri -- Sainte Genevieve County
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780817394202
0817394206