UID:
almafu_9959239773902883
Format:
1 online resource (426 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8173-8151-1
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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Appendix 3. Catalog Numbers of Illustrated ArtifactsAppendix 4. Those Who Did the Work; References Cited; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8173-1687-6
Language:
English
