A01=John H. Blitz
Alabama
american indians
anthropology
archeology
Author_John H. Blitz
black warrior river
black warrior river region
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chiefdoms
cultural shift
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indigenous history
Mississippi
Mississippian
Mississippian society
native american chiefdoms
native american culture
native american history
native american society
native americans
prehistoric society
prehistory
south
southern history
Tombigbee-Black Warrior River
Product details
- ISBN 9780817306724
- Weight: 390g
- Dimensions: 154 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Mar 1993
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Within the last 50 years archaeologists have discovered that around the 10th century AD, native Southeastern peoples began a process of cultural change far more complex than anything that had occurred previously. These late prehistoric societies - known as Mississippian - have come to be regarded as chiefdoms. The chiefdoms are of great anthropological interest because in these kinds of societies social hierarchies - or rank and status - were first institutionalised. In this book, Blitz focuses on both the small- and large-scale Mississippian societies in the Tombigbee-Black Warrior River region of Alabama and Mississippi. He concludes that the sanctified, security maintenance roles of communal food storage management and war leadership were a sufficient basis for formal chiefly authority but insufficient for economically based social stratification. This book is a Dan Josselyn memorial publication.
