Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom : Chronology, Content, Contest.

Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom : Chronology, Content, Contest.

Built on a flat terrace overlooking the Black Warrior River in Alabama, the Moundville ceremonial center was at its height a densely occupied town of approximately 1,000 residents with at least 29 earthen mounds surrounding a central plaza. Today Moundville is not only one of the largest and best-pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Knight, Vernon
Other Authors: Peebles, Christopher, Steponaitis, Vincas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Mississippian culture > Alabama > Black Warrior River Valley.
Chiefdoms > Alabama > Black Warrior River Valley.
Indian pottery > Alabama > Black Warrior River Valley.
Social archaeology > Alabama > Black Warrior River Valley.
Antiquities
Chiefdoms
Indian pottery
Mississippian culture
Social archaeology
Moundville Archaeological Park (Moundville, Ala.)
Black Warrior River Valley (Ala.) > Antiquities.
Alabama > Black Warrior River Valley
Alabama > Moundville > Moundville Archaeological Park
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface to the New Edition; 1. A New History of Moundville; 2. Population Trends at Moundville; 3· Moundville as a Diagrammatic Ceremonial Center; 4. Domestic Life on the Northwest Riverbank at Moundville; 5. Of Time and the River: Perspectives on Health during the Moundville Chiefdom; 6. Human Subsistence at Moundville: The Stable-Isotope Data; 7. Outlying Sites within the Moundville Chiefdom; 8. The Oliver Site and Early Moundville I Phase Economic Organization; Bibliography; Index.

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