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1 online resource (426 pages)
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9780817381516
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How social and political power was wielded in order to build Moundville This work is a state-of-the-art, data-rich study of excavations undertaken at the Moundville site in west central Alabama, one of the largest and most complex of the mound sites of pre-contact North America. Despite the site's importance and sustained attention by researchers, until now it has lacked a comprehensive analysis of its modern excavations. Richly documented by maps, artifact photo-graphs, profiles of strata, and inventories of materials found, the present work explores one expression of social complexity; the significance of Moundville's monumental architecture, including its earthen mounds; the pole-frame architecture that once occupied the summits of these mounds; and the associated middens that reveal the culture of Moundville's elites. This book supplies a survey of important materials recovered in more than a decade of recent excavations of seven mounds and related areas under the author's direction, as part of a long-term archaeological project consisting of new field work at the Mississippian political and ceremonial center of Moundville. Visitors to Moundville are immediately impressed with its monumentality. The expansiveness and grandness of that landscape are, of course, deliberate features that have a story to tell and this archaeological project reveals Moundville's monumentality and its significance to the people whose capital town it was. Exactly how the social and political power symbolized by mound building was distributed is a question central to this work. It seems critical to ask to what extent this monumental landscape was the product of a chief's ability to recruit and direct the labor of large groups of political subordinates, most of whom were presumably non-kin. At the onset of the present project, speculations regarding the paired
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction to the Mound Excavations, 1989-1998 -- 2. Chronology, Units of Content, and Pottery Classification -- 3. Classification of Objects Other than Pottery -- 4. Excavations in Mound Q -- 5. Excavations in Mound E -- 6. Excavations in Mounds P, R, F, G, and A -- 7. Collections from Mounds B, H, I, J, K, L, and M -- 8. Zooarchaeology of the Moundville Elite H. Edwin Jackson and Susan L. Scott -- 9. Comparative Analysis and Conclusions -- Appendix 1. Botanical Remains from Mounds Q and G -- Appendix 2. Inventory of Features, Mounds Q and E -- Appendix 3. Catalog Numbers of Illustrated Artifacts -- Appendix 4. Those Who Did the Work -- References Cited -- Index.
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ISBN 9780817316877
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780817316877
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English
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