Download or read book From Cahokia to Larson to Moundville written by A. Martin Byers and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The orthodox view of the Mississippian social world hinges on the ideas that chiefdoms--dominance based hierarchical societies in the Eastern Woodlands of North America--vied for power, often violently bit at times cooperatively, through political and economic avenues. These chiefdoms represented something of a feudal state in prehistoric North America, which lasted up to the contact period with Europeans around 1500 A.D. In From Cahokia to Larson to Moundville, noted archaeologist A. Martin Byers challenges these assumptions and offers a contrasting view by deconstructing the chiefdom model and offering instead an autonomous social world that focused on spiritual renewal and sacred rituals. Byers presents his case through the archaeological record of Cahokia, Larson, and Moundville's monumental earthworks and, in doing so, reveals the Mississippian social community to be more complex, and more cooperative, than previously envisioned. A. Martin Byers, now retired, was a research associate in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University in Montreal.
Download or read book Cahokia written by Timothy R. Pauketat and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About one thousand years ago, Native Americans built hundreds of earthen platform mounds, plazas, residential areas, and other types of monuments in the vicinity of present-day St. Louis. This sprawling complex, known to archaeologists as Cahokia, was the dominant cultural, ceremonial, and trade center north of Mexico for centuries. This stimulating collection of essays casts new light on the remarkable accomplishments of Cahokia.
Download or read book The Cahokia Mounds written by Warren King Moorehead and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CAHOKIA CHIEFDOM written by MILNER GEORGE R and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1998-10-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on his own extensive surveys and excavations, and on a wide array of research that has been conducted in the central Mississippi Valley during the past several decades, Milner argues that, while clearly impressive for its time, Cahokia-area society differed little in its basic organization from the smaller, less complex chiefdoms that dotted the southern Eastern Woodlands.
Download or read book The Real Mound Builders of North America written by A. Martin Byers and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Mound Builders of North America contrasts the evolutionary view that emphasizes abrupt discontinuities with the Hopewellian ceremonial assemblage and mounds. Byers argues that these communities persisted unchanged in terms of their essential structures and traditions, varying only in ceremonial practices that manifested these structures.
Download or read book Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland written by Vincas P. Steponaitis and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moundville, near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is one of the largest pre-Columbian mound sites in North America. Comprising twenty-nine earthen mounds that were once platforms for chiefly residences and public buildings, Moundville was a major political and religious center for the people living in its region and for the wider Mississippian world. A much-needed synthesis of the rapidly expanding archaeological work that has taken place in the region over the past two decades, this volume presents the results of multifaceted research and new excavations. Using models deeply rooted in local ethnohistory, it ties Moundville and its people more closely than before to the ethnography of native southerners and emphasizes the role of social memory, iconography, and ritual practices both at the mound center and in the rural hinterland, providing an up-to-date and refreshingly nuanced interpretation of Mississippian culture. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
Download or read book The Cahokia Atlas written by Melvin Leo Fowler and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cahokia Mounds written by Timothy R. Pauketat and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just a few miles west of Collinsville, Illinois lies the remains of the most sophisticated prehistoric native civilizations north of Mexico. Cahokia Mounds explores the history behind this buried American city inhabited from about AD 700 to 1400, that was almost lost in metropolitan expansions of the 1960s and 1970s, but later became one of the best understood archeological sites in North America.
Download or read book Cahokia and the Hinterlands written by Thomas E. Emerson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Cahokia and Surrounding Mound Groups written by David Ives Bushnell (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The origin of the Cahokia mounds written by Alja Robinson Crook and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cahokia and Surrounding Mound Groups written by David Ives Bushnell and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Cahokia and Surrounding Mound Groups written by David Ives Bushnell and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cahokia s Countryside written by Mark Mehrer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comprehensive analysis of several recently uncovered sites in the American Bottom region, Mehrer focuses on household archaeology to shed light on the daily lives of the Mississippian people. He examines the objects of daily use--domestic and ceremonial buildings, storage and processing pits, mundane and exotic artifacts--to reconstruct the framework of everyday life and to show how the routines of early native people changed with time. New findings reveal the changing roles of households in their communities, exposing a social order more complex than previously thought. Mehrer examines seven sites in the American Bottom region--the Robert Schneider, BBB Motor, Turner-DeManger, Florence Street, Julien, Range, and Carbon Dioxide sites--and integrates his findings with new information from the large Cahokia mound center. Analyzing patterns of debris distribution, pit morphology and arrangement, and household organization, he reveals much about the social and cultural developments in the region. While illuminating the daily lives of Cahokians, Mehrer develops an analytical approach to archaeological site data that can be applied in other parts of the world. The Cahokia region is of special interest because the Cahokia site is the largest mound center in North America and because the Mississippian society there rose and fell long before Europeans arrived. Although archaeologists have previously focused on Cahokia's elite population, until now little has been known about its rural residents.
Download or read book The Cahokia Mounds written by Warren King Moorehead and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Origin of the Cahokia Mounds Classic Reprint written by A. R. Crook and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Origin of the Cahokia Mounds A few miles east of St. Louis, on the at alluvial plain of the Mississippi, in Madison and St. Clair Counties, Illinois, are several score of mounds or low swel'lings from a few to a hundred feet in height. For more than a century they have attracted attention being in a fertile region, on a main line of travel, and near a center of population. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book The Cahokia and Surrounding Mound Groups written by David Ives Bushnell (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
