Authority, Autonomy, and the Archaeology of a Mississippian Community
Authority, Autonomy, and the Archaeology of a Mississippian Community

Author: Erin S. Nelson

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2019-11-01

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1683401239

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This book is the first detailed investigation of the important archaeological site of Parchman Place in the Yazoo Basin, a defining area for understanding the Mississippian culture that spanned much of what is now the United States Southeast and Midwest before the mid-sixteenth century. Refining the widely accepted theory that this society was strongly hierarchical, Erin Nelson provides data that suggest communities navigated tensions between authority and autonomy in their placemaking and in their daily lives. Drawing on archaeological evidence from foodways, monumental and domestic architecture, and the organization of communal space at the site, Nelson argues that Mississippian people negotiated contradictory ideas about what it meant to belong to a community. For example, although they clearly had powerful leaders, communities built mounds and other structures in ways that re-created their views of the cosmos, expressing values of wholeness and balance. Nelson’s findings shed light on the inner workings of Mississippian communities and other hierarchical societies of the period. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley
Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley

Author: Charles H. McNutt

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 1996-05-30

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0817308075

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Experts throughout the Central Mississippi Valley present current views of the regional cultural sequences supported by data concerning recent surveys and excavations.

Archaeology of the Mississippian Culture
Archaeology of the Mississippian Culture

Author: Peter N. Peregrine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-11

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1136508554

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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 available for the non-specialist. This series is intended to fill that need.

Blackland Prairies of the Gulf Coastal Plain
Blackland Prairies of the Gulf Coastal Plain

Author: Evan Peacock

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2003-03-05

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0817312153

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Taking a holistic approach, this compilation gathers ecological, historical, and archaeological research written on the distinctive region of the US Southeast called the Gulf coast blackland prairie. Ranging from the last glacial period to the present day, the case studies provide a broad picture of how the area has changed through time and been modified by humans, first with nomadic bands of Indians trailing the grazing animals and then by Euro-American settlers who farmed the rich agricultural area. Contemporary impacts include industrialization, aquaculture, population growth, land reclamation, and wildlife management.

Time's River
Time's River

Author: Janet Rafferty

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2008-07-21

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 0817354891

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An archaeologically rich region, in advance of impending disturbance

Bones of Complexity
Bones of Complexity

Author: Haagen D. Klaus

Publisher: University Press of Florida

Published: 2017-04-11

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 0813052599

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"Provides data and information that can be used for comparative analysis and as a foundation for further exploration. Inviting research from various geographic, cultural, and temporal locales from around the globe, the editors present a complex snapshot of the past."--Anne L. Grauer, editor of A Companion to Paleopathology "This cohesive collection of empirically based studies integrates biological and archaeological data in order to investigate social behavior and its linkages with human health. Relevant to anyone interested in the intersections of culture, health, and biology."--Jaime M. Ullinger, codirector, Quinnipiac University Bioanthropology Research Institute Drawing upon wide-ranging studies of prehistoric human remains from Europe, northern Africa, Asia, and the Americas, this groundbreaking volume unites physical anthropologists, archaeologists, and economists to explore how social structure can be reflected in the human skeleton. Contributors identify many ways in which social, political, and economic inequality have affected health, disease, metabolic insufficiency, growth, and diet. The volume makes a strong case for a broader integration of bioarchaeology with mortuary archaeology as its distinctive approaches offer new ways to look at power, resources, social organization, and the shape of human lives over time and across cultures. A volume in the series Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen

Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households
Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households

Author: Elizabeth Watts Malouchos

Publisher: University Alabama Press

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0817320881

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Explores the archaeology of Mississippian communities and households using new data and advances in method and theory Published 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 Mississippian Communitiesand Households revisits and builds on what has been learned in the years since the Rogers and Smith volume, advancing the field further with the diverse perspectives of current social theory and methods and big data as applied to communities in Native America from the AD 900s to 1700s and from northeast Florida to southwest Arkansas. Watts Malouchos and Betzenhauser bring together scholars researching diverse Mississippian Southeast and Midwest sites to investigate aspects of community and household construction, maintenance, and dissolution. Thirteen original case studies prove that community can be enacted and expressed in various ways, including in feasting, pottery styles, war and conflict, and mortuary treatments.