From quarry to cornfield : the political economy of Mississippian hoe production /

From quarry to cornfield : the political economy of Mississippian hoe production /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cobb, Charles R. (Charles Richard), 1956-
Imprint:	Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2000.
Description:	xv, 257 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Hoes, Prehistoric -- Mississippi River Valley. Mississippian culture. Indians of North America -- Illinois -- Antiquities. Antiquities. Hoes, Prehistoric. Indians of North America -- Antiquities. Mississippian culture. Mill Creek Site (Ill.) Illinois -- Antiquities. Mississippi River Valley -- Antiquities. Illinois. Illinois -- Mill Creek Site. Mississippi River Valley.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4386337

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ISBN:	0817310509 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-249) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. A Day in the Life
2. Specialization, Exchange, and Power in Small-Scale Societies and Chiefdoms
3. Exchanging Chert, Consuming Chert
4. Rethinking the Organization of Lithic Technology
5. Life in the Mississippian Uplands
6. The Regional Structure of Hoe Production
7. Hoe Production and the Domestic Economy
8. Production and Power: Defining Scales.