Author : John Edward Kelly
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 21,76 MB
Release : 1979
Category : American Bottom (Ill.)
ISBN :
Author : James L Phillips
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315433516
This volume reports on a series of multidisciplinary projects involving the Archaic period of the American Midwest. A period of innovation and technical achievement, the articles focus on changes in environmental, social, and economic factors operating in this period, and the adaptation of the hunter gatherer peoples living at this time.
Author : Thomas E. Emerson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 895 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 143842700X
Essential overview of American Indian societies during the Archaic period across central North America.
Author : Charles John Bareis
Publisher : Illinois Transportation
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 15,50 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252011115
Author : Jon Muller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1315433834
Although it has been occupied for as long and possesses a mound-building tradition of considerable scale and interest, Muller contends that the archaeology of the lower Ohio River Valley—from the confluence with the Mississippi to the falls at Louisville, Kentucky – remains less well-known that that of the elaborate mound-building cultures of the upper valley. This study provides a synthesis of archaeological work done in the region, emphasizing population growth and adaptation within an ecological framework in an attempt to explain the area’s cultural evolution.
Author : Charles John Bareis
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Attila Gyucha
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438472773
Archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how urbanization first emerged in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East. The pursuit for universally applicable definitions of the terms urban and city has frequently distracted scholars from scrutinizing processes of how ancient nucleated settlements evolved and developed. Based on the premise that similar social dynamics to a great extent governed nucleation trajectories throughout human history, Coming Together focuses on both prehistoric aggregated and early urban settlements. Drawing from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, archaeologists, anthropologists, and classicists discuss how nucleation unfolded in strikingly different sociopolitical contexts in North America, Europe, and the Near East. The major themes of the volume are nucleations origins, pathways to sustainability, and the transformative role of these sites in sociopolitical and cultural change.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 22,86 MB
Release : 1983
Category : American Bottom (Ill.)
ISBN :
Author : Bruce D. Smith
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 2007-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0817354522
This collection, addressing a topic of ongoing interest and debate in American archaeology, examines the evolution of ranked chiefdoms in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States during the period A.D. 700–1200. The volume brings together a broad range of professionals engaged in the fieldwork that has vitalized the theoretical debates on the development of Mississippi Valley cultures. The initial chapter provides a general discussion of various explanations for the rise of these distinctive ranked societies in the eastern United States (A.D. 750-1050) and sets the stage for the interdisciplinary analysis from multiple viewpoints that follows. The first section discusses a cluster of individual sites in the Midwest and Southeast and reveals the parallel—and occasionally divergent—paths followed by the inhabitants as they transitioned from Late Woodland into Mississippian lifeways. The chapters in the second half discuss by region the emergence of ranked agricultural societies and examine how these networks played a role in the large-scale and roughly contemporaneous socio-political development. Contributors: C. Clifford Boyd Jr. James A. Brown R. P. Stephen Davis Jr. John House John E. Kelly Richard A. Kerber Dan F. Morse Phyllis Morse Martha Ann Rolingson Gerald F. Schroedl Bruce D. Smith Paul D. Welch Howard D. Winters
Author : Thomas E. Emerson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252068782
Covering topics as diverse as economic modeling, craft specialization, settlement patterns, agricultural and subsistence systems, and the development of social ranking, Cahokia and the Hinterlands explores cultural interactions among Cahokians and the inhabitants of other population centers, including Orensdorf and the Dickson Mounds in Illinois and Aztalan in Wisconsin, as well as sites in Minnesota, Iowa, and at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Proposing sophisticated and innovative models for the growth, development, and decline of Mississippian culture at Cahokia and elsewhere, this volume also provides insight into the rise of chiefdoms and stratified societies and the development of trade throughout the world.
