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Rethinking Moundville and its hinterland / edited by Vincas P. Steponaitis and C. Margaret Scarry ; foreword by Henry T. Wright III
- Published
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators
- Steponaitis, Vincas P. and Scarry, C. Margaret
Access Online
- Series
- Contents
- 1. New directions in Moundville research / Vincas P. Steponaitis and C. Margaret Scarry -- 2. Social archaeology of monumental spaces at Moundville / Vernon James Knight Jr. -- 3. Long-term trends in the making and materialization of social groups at Moundville / Gregory D. Wilson -- 4. Mound X and selective forgetting at early Moundville / John H. Blitz -- 5. Was there a Moundville medicine society? / George E. Lankford -- 6. The distribution of Hemphill-style artifacts at Moundville / Erin E. Phillips -- 7. Moundville palettes : prestige goods or inalienable possessions? / Vincas P. Steponaitis -- 8. Rural settlement in the Black Warrior Valley / Scott W. Hammerstedt, Mintcy D. Maxham, and Jennifer L. Myer -- 9. Late prehistoric social practice in the rural Black Warrior River Valley / John F. Scarry, H. Edwin Jackson, and Mintcy D. Maxham -- 10. Domestic and ritual meals in the Moundville chiefdom / H. Edwin Jackson, C. Margaret Scarry, and Susan Scott -- 11. Crafting Moundville palettes / Jera R. Davis -- 12. Moundville as a ceremonial ground / C. Margaret Scarry and Vincas P. Steponaitis.
- Summary
- "The Moundville archaeological site, located in Alabama, is well-known as a prime example of a Mississippian mound complex. Building upon the 1998 volume 'Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom, ' this volume closes the information gap and presents the results of ongoing and multifaceted research into the life of the people of the Moundville chiefdom"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject(s)
- Excavations (Archaeology)—Alabama—Moundville
- Indians of North America—Alabama—Moundville—Antiquities
- Mississippian culture—Alabama—Moundville
- Fouilles (Archéologie)—Alabama—Moundville
- Culture du Mississippi—Alabama—Moundville
- HISTORY—United States—State & Local—General
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
- Antiquities
- Excavations (Archaeology)
- Indians of North America—Antiquities
- Mississippian culture
- Moundville (Ala.)—Antiquities
- Alabama—Moundville
- ISBN
- 9780813055725 (electronic bk.)
0813055725 (electronic bk.)
9780813051093
0813051096
9780813061665
0813061660 - Related Titles
- Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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