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  • Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households

    Series series Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspectives
    Explores the archaeology of Mississippian communities and households using new data and advances in method and theoryPublished in 1995, Mississippian Communities and Households, edited by J. Daniel Rogers and Bruce D. Smith, was a foundational text that advanced southeastern archaeology in significant ways and brought household-level archaeology to the forefront of the field. Reconsidering ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Archaeology of Everyday Life at Early Moundville

    A fascinating examination of family life and social relationships at this powerful prehistoric community, which at its peak was the largest city north of MexicoComplex Mississippian polities were neither developed nor sustained in a vacuum. A broad range of small-scale social groups played a variety of roles in the emergence of regionally organized political hierarchies that governed large-scale ... Read more

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  • Mississippian Beginnings

    Edited by Gregory D. Wilson ...
    Series series Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
    Using fresh evidence and nontraditional ideas, the contributing authors of Mississippian Beginnings reconsider the origins of the Mississippian culture of the North American Midwest and Southeast (A.D. 1000–1600). Challenging the decades-old opinion that this culture evolved similarly across isolated Woodland popu¬lations, they discuss signs of migrations, missionization, pilgrimages, violent ... Read more

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  • The Archaeology of Food and Warfare

    Food Insecurity in Prehistory

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The archaeologies of food and warfare have independently developed over the past several decades. This volume aims to provide concrete linkages between these research topics through the examination of case studies worldwide. Topics considered within the book include: the impacts of warfare on the daily food quest, warfare and nutritional health, ritual foodways and violence, the provisioning of ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

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  • Skull Wars

    Kennewick Man, Archaeology, And The Battle For Native American Identity

    The 1996 discovery, near Kennewick, Washington, of a 9,000-year-old Caucasoid skeleton brought more to the surface than bones. The explosive controversy and resulting lawsuit also raised a far more fundamental question: Who owns history? Many Indians see archeologists as desecrators of tribal rites and traditions; archeologists see their livelihoods and science threatened by the 1990 Federal ... Read more

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  • The Moundbuilders: Ancient Societies of Eastern North America (Second)

    Brought up to date with the latest research, The Moundbuilders is the definitive visual guide to North America’s eastern region and the societies that forever changed its landscape.Hailed by Bruce D. Smith, curator of North American archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution, as “without question the best available book on the pre-Columbian . . . societies of eastern North America,” this wide ... Read more

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  • Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions

    Series series Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology
    In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively, engaging, and informed prose, Timothy Pauketat debunks much of this social-evolutionary ... Read more

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  • Aztalan

    Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town

    Aztalan has remained a mystery since the early nineteenth century when it was discovered by settlers who came to the Crawfish River, fifty miles west of Milwaukee. Who were the early indigenous people who inhabited this place? When did they live here? Why did they disappear?Birmingham and Goldstein attempt to unlock some of the mysteries, providing insights and information about the group of ... Read more

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  • The Eastern Archaic, Historicized

    Series series Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology
    The Eastern Archaic, Historicized offers an alternative perspective on the genesis and transformation of cultural diversity over eight millennia of hunter-gatherer dwelling in eastern North America. For many decades, archaeological understanding of Archaic diversity has been dominated by perspectives that emphasize localized relationships between humans and environment. The evidence, shows, ... Read more

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  • The A to Z of Early North America

    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    Those unfamiliar with the prehistory of North America have a general perception of the cultures of the continent that includes Native Americans living in tipis, wearing feathered headdresses and buckskin clothing, and following migratory bison herds on the Great Plains. Although these practices were part of some Native American societies, they do not adequately represent the diversity of cultural ... Read more

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  • Archaeology of the Mississippian Culture

    A Research Guide

    First published in 1996. In recent years there has been a general increase of scholarly and popular interest in the study of ancient civilizations. Yet, because archaeologists and other scholars tend to approach their study of ancient peoples and places almost exclusively from their own disciplinary perspectives, there has long been a lack of general bibliographic and other research resources ... Read more

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