UID:
almafu_9959239770402883
Format:
1 online resource (308 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8173-8311-5
Content:
A Dan Josselyn Memorial PublicationSpecialists from archaeology, ethnohistory, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology bring their varied points of view to this subject in an attempt to answer basic questions about the nature and extent of social change within the time period. The scholars' overriding concerns include presentation of a scientifically accurate depiction of the native cultures in the Central Mississippi Valley prior and immediately subsequent to European contact and the need to document the ensuing social and biological changes that eventually l
Note:
"A Dan Josselyn memorial publication."
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Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Introduction; 1. Comments on the Late Prehistoric Societies in the Southeast; 2. An Evaluation of the Biocultural Consequences of the Mississippian Transformation; 3. The Late Prehistory of the Ohio-Mississippi Rivers Confluence Region, Kentucky and Missouri; 4. Protohistoric/Early Historic Manifestations in Southeastern Missouri; 5. The Nodena Phase; 6. Health and Disease at Nodena: A Late Mississippian Community in Northeastern Arkansas; 7. The Parkin Site and the Parkin Phase; 8. The Walls Phase and Its Neighbors
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9. The Vacant Quarter and Other Late Events in the Lower Valley10. The Hernando de Soto Expedition: From Mabila to the Mississippi River; 11. The Terminal Mississippian Period in the Arkansas River Valley and Quapaw Ethnogenesis; 12. Historic Indians of the Lower Mississippi Valley: An Archaeologist's View; 13. Comprehensive Planning for the Protection and Preservation of Mississippian Sites in Tennessee; References; Contributors; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8173-0455-X
Language:
English
