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1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Part I -- Lamar Archaeology; Introduction; Lamar Archaeology: 1987; Part II -- Time and Space; Introduction; Regional Chronologies; Phase Characteristics; Part III -- Case Studies; Introduction; 1. Pine Barrens Lamar / Frankie Snow; 2. The Lamar Ceramics of the Georgia Coast / Chad O. Braley; 3. Recent Investigations in the Core of the Coosa Province / James B. Langford, Jr., and Marvin T. Smith; 4. Two Late Lamar Sites near Ray's Corner, Oconee County, Georgia / Daniel T. Elliott; 5. Dallas Phase Architecture and Sociopolitical Structure / Richard R. Polhemus |
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6. A Study of Lamar Ecology on the Western Edge of the Southern Piedmont / C. Roger Nance7. Bottomlands and Rapids: A Mississippian Adaptive Niche in the Georgia Piedmont / Gary Shapiro; 8. Paired Towns / Mark Williams and Gary Shapiro; 9. The Rise, Transformation, and Fall of Apalachee: A Case Study of Political Change in a Chiefly Society / John F. Scarry; 10. Stability and Change in Chiefdom-Level Societies: An Examination of Mississippian Political Evolution on the South Atlantic Slope / David G. Anderson; 11. Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa / Charles M. Hudson |
| Summary |
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication Lamar Archaeology provides a comprehensive and detailed review of our knowledge of the late prehistoric Indian societies in the Southern Appalachian area and its peripheries. These Lamar societies were chiefdom-level groups who built most of the mounds in this large region and were ancestors of later tribes, including the Creeks and Cherokees. This book begins with a history of the last 50 years of archaeological and historical research and brings together for the first time all the available data on this early culture. It also provides an invaluable mod |
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Lamar culture.
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Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Antiquities.
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Chiefdoms -- Southern States
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Antiquities
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Chiefdoms
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Indians of North America -- Antiquities
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Lamar culture
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Southern States -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125634
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Southern States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Marvin T
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Anderson, David G
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Elliott, Daniel T
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Snow, Frankie
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Hudson, Charles
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Polhemus, Richard
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Shapiro, Gary
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Braley, Chad O
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Langford, James B
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Nance, Roger C
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Scarry, John F
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| ISBN |
9780817383855 |
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0817383859 |
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