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| ISBN: | 0585193541
9780585193540
9780817384180
0817384189
0817307281
9780817307288
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-229) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | This ambitious book provides a theoretical explanation of how prehistoric Cahokia became a stratified society, and ultimately the pinnacle of Native American cultural achievement north of Mexico. Considering Cahokia in terms of class struggle, Pauketat claims that the political consolidation in this region of the Mississippi Valley happened quite suddenly, around A.D. 1000, after which the lords of Cahokia innovated strategies to preserve their power and ultimately emerged as divine chiefs. The new ideas and new data in this volume will invigorate the debate surrounding one of the mo.
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| Other form: | Print version: Pauketat, Timothy R. Ascent of chiefs. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1994 0817307281
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