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- SunWatch: Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
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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
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.
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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- 3. An Approach to the Problem
- pp. 41-60
- 4. Corporate Behavior in Space and Time
- pp. 61-105
- 5. Development of Village Leadership
- pp. 106-124
- 6. Periphery Peers
- pp. 125-147
- References Cited
- pp. 159-182
Additional Information
ISBN
9780817381776
Related ISBN(s)
9780817315900, 9780817354589
MARC Record
OCLC
609852662
Pages
213
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2007