{"product_id":"ancient-chiefdoms-of-the-tombigbee","title":"Ancient Chiefdoms of the Tombigbee","description":"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.","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55318882746712,"sku":"9780817306724","price":28.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780817306724.jpg?v=1777973437","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ancient-chiefdoms-of-the-tombigbee","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}