Mississippian Beginnings
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Author_Gregory D. Wilson
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 9781683400103
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 29 Aug 2017
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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, pilgrimages, violent conflicts, and other far-flung entanglements that now appear to have shaped the early Mississippian past.
Presenting recent fieldwork, archival studies, and new investigations of legacy collections, the essays in this volume 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 came to share similar architecture, pottery, subsistence strategies, sociopolitical organization, iconography, and religion. Together, they provide the most comprehensive examination of early Mississippian culture in nearly thirty years.
Presenting recent fieldwork, archival studies, and new investigations of legacy collections, the essays in this volume 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 came to share similar architecture, pottery, subsistence strategies, sociopolitical organization, iconography, and religion. Together, they provide the most comprehensive examination of early Mississippian culture in nearly thirty years.
