Coming Together
Coming Together

Author: Attila Gyucha

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2019-02-28

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1438472781

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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 nucleation's origins, pathways to sustainability, and the transformative role of these sites in sociopolitical and cultural change.

The Holdener Site
The Holdener Site

Author: Warren L. Wittry

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780252064166

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This report details the restricted usage, localized resource utilization, and brief occupation of this site during the seventh through eleventh centuries A.D.

Archaic Societies
Archaic Societies

Author: Thomas E. Emerson

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 895

ISBN-13: 143842700X

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Essential overview of American Indian societies during the Archaic period across central North America.

Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest
Archaic Hunters and Gatherers in the American Midwest

Author: James L Phillips

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2016-09-16

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1315433524

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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.

Mississippian Settlement Patterns
Mississippian Settlement Patterns

Author: Bruce D. Smith

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2014-05-10

Total Pages: 537

ISBN-13: 1483220249

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Studies in Archeology: Mississippian Settlement Patterns explains the cultural organization of many of the prehistoric societies in the Eastern United States during the last 1000 years of their existence. This book emphasizes the difference between the central core of Mississippian societies and those peripheral societies that preceded its development. Readers are advised to begin the examination of this compilation by reading Chapter 16 first, followed by Chapters 8 to 13 and 15, in order to understand the variations of patterning among societies that are commonly regarded as nascent or developed Mississippian. The rest of the chapters analyze cultural groups on the West, North, and Northeast that are not Mississippian societies, including a discussion of late prehistoric societies that are in some ways divergent but are sometimes regarded as Mississippian. This publication is valuable to archeologists, historians, and researchers conducting work on Mississippian societies.

The Marge Site
The Marge Site

Author: Andrew C. Fortier

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9780252066078

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This report details Late Archaic and Terminal Late Woodland (Emergent Mississippian) occupations. This site yielded a semi-subterranean house, short-term hunting/butchering camp, lithic artifacts, and other debitage providing new information regarding the dynamics of this critical transition period in the American Bottom.