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  • Life in a Mississippian Warscape

    Common Field, Cahokia, and the Effects of Warfare

    by Meghan E. Buchanan ...
    Series series Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspectives
    Analyzes Mississippian daily life at Cahokia’s environs during wartimeIn 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 ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households

    by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos, Keith Ashley, Melissa R. Baltus, Alleen Betzenhauser, Jennifer Birch, Tamira K. Brennan, Meghan E. Buchanan, Jera R. Davis, Heidi A. de Gregory0, Paige A. Ford1, Adam King2, Duncan P. McKinnon3, Erin S. Nelson4, Benjamin A. Steere5, Amber R. Thorpe6, Jason Yaeger7, Christopher B. Rodning8, Edmond A. Boudreaux III9, Stefan Brannan III0 ...
    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

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  • Skull Wars

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

    by David Hurst Thomas ...
    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)

    by George R. Milner ...
    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

    by Timothy R. Pauketat ...
    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

    $42.99 USD

  • Aztalan

    Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town

    by Robert A. Birmingham, Lynne Goldstein ...
    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

    by Kenneth E. Sassaman ...
    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

    by Cameron B. Wesson ...
    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

    by Peter N. Peregrine ...
    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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  • Cahokia and the North American Worlds

    by Sarah E. Baires ...
    Series series Elements in the Global Middle Ages
    The City of Cahokia provides a unique case study to review what draws people to a place and why. This Element examines not only the emergence and decline of this great American city but its intersection with the broader Native American world during this period. Cahokia was not an isolated complex but a place vivid on the landscape where people made pilgrimages to and from Cahokia for trade and ... Read more

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  • Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power

    by Thomas E. Emerson ...
    Examines the authority a ruling elite exercised over the surrounding countryside through a complex of social, political, and religious symbolismThis study uses the theoretical concepts of agency, power, and ideology to explore the development of cultural complexity within the hierarchically organized Cahokia Middle Mississippian society of the American Bottom from the 11th to the 13th centuries. ... Read more

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