Sunwatch : Fort Ancient development in the Mississippian world /
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| Author / Creator: | Cook, Robert A. (Robert Allen), 1970- |
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| Imprint: | Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008. |
| Description: | xiv, 197 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6820208 |
| Summary: | Focuses on the development of village social structure within a broad geographic and temporal framework, recognizing border areas as particularly dynamic contexts of social change <br> <br> <br> <br> The last prehistoric cultures to inhabit the Middle Ohio Valley (ca. A.D. 1000-1650) are referred to as Fort Ancient societies, which exhibited a wide variety of Mississippian period characteristics. What is less well-known and little understood are the social processes by which Mississippian characteristics spread to Fort Ancient communities. Through a comprehensive study of SunWatch, one of the few thoroughly excavated Fort Ancient settlements, the author focuses on the development of village social structure within a broad geographic and temporal framework, recognizing border areas as particularly dynamic contexts of social change. As a fundamental study of social patterning of Fort Ancient villages, this work reveals the interrelationships of small social units in culture change and social structure development and provides a full reconsideration of the Mississippian dimensions of Fort Ancient societies and a model for future investigations of larger patterning in the lateprehistory of the region. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 197 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-182) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817315900 081731590X 9780817354589 0817354581 |
