Mississippian Beginnings
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Gregory Wilson
history
Lynne Sullivan
Maize
Mississippian Beginnings
Mississippian origins
Mississippian Period
Mississippian Societies
Mobility
Organizational Variation
Political Landscape
religion
religious power
Urbanization
Product details
- ISBN 9781683401391
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2019
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Using fresh evidence and nontraditional ideas, the contributing authors of Mississippian Beginnings reconsider the origins of the Mississippian culture of the North American Midwest and Southeast (A.D. 1000–1600). Challenging the decades-old opinion that this culture evolved similarly across isolated Woodland populations, they discuss signs of migrations, missionization, pilgrimages, violent conflicts, long-distance exchange, and other far-flung entanglements that now appear to have shaped the early Mississippian past. Presenting recent fieldwork from a wide array of sites including Cahokia and the American Bottom, archival studies, and new investigations of legacy collections, the contributors interpret results through contemporary perspectives that emphasize agency and historical contingency. They track the various ways disparate cultures across a sizeable swath of the continent experienced Mississippianization and came to share similar architecture, pottery, subsistence strategies, sociopolitical organization, iconography, and religion. Together, these essays provide the most comprehensive examination of early Mississippian culture in over thirty years.
Gregory D. Wilson, associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the author of The Archaeology of Everyday Life at Early Moundville.
