Format:
Online-Ressource (239 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780817315917
Content:
Some of the most visible expressions of human culture are illustrated architecturally. Unfortunately for archaeologists, the architecture being studied is not always visible and must be inferred from soil inconsistencies or charred remains. This study deals with research into roughly a millennium of Native American architecture in the Southeast and includes research on the variation of construction techniques employed both above and below ground. Most of the architecture discussed is that of domestic houses with some emphasis on large public buildings and sweat lodges. The authors use an array
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction to Architectural Variability in the Southeast - Cameron H. Lacquement; 2. Evidence of Curved Roof Construction in Mississippian Structures - Nelson A. Reed; 3. An Experimental Perspective on Mississippian Small Pole Structures - Dennis B. Blanton and Thomas H. Gresham; 4. Typology, Chronology, and Technological Changes of Mississippian Domestic Architecture in West- Central Alabama - Cameron H. Lacquement; 5. In-Ground Evidence of Above-Ground Architecture at Kincaid Mounds - Tamira K. Brennan
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6. A Comparison of Burned Mississippian Houses from Illinois - Mark A. McConaughy7. A WPA Déjà Vu on Mississippian Architecture - Lynne P. Sullivan; 8. An Architectural Grammar of Late Mississippian Houses in Northwest Georgia - Ramie A. Gougeon; 9. A Mississippian Sweat Lodge - Robert H. Lafferty, III; 10. Interpreting Changes in Historic Creek Household Architecture at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century - Robert J. Scott; 11. Conclusions: Taking Architecture Seriously - Vernon J. Knight, Jr.; References Cited; Contributors; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817382018
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817315917
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Architectural Variability in the Southeast
Language:
English
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