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The archaeology of villages in eastern North America

Title
The archaeology of villages in eastern North America / edited by Jennifer Birch and Victor D. Thompson.
Publication
  • Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

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  • Birch, Jennifer, 1980-
  • Thompson, Victor D.
Description
xvii, 211 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Summary
This volume highlights the similarities and differences in the historical trajectories of village formation and development in eastern North America, as well as the larger processes by which villages have the power to affect large-scale social transformations. Contributors to this volume employ archaeological and historical evidence to explore the development of villages among eastern North American societies of the deep and recent past.
Series Statement
Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series
Uniform Title
Ripley P. Bullen series.
Subject
  • Indians of North America > East (U.S.) > Antiquities
  • Woodland Indians > East (U.S.) > Antiquities
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
  • Antiquities
  • Indians of North America > Antiquities
  • Woodland Indians > Antiquities
  • East (U.S.) > Antiquities
  • United States, East
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword: Crafting community and identity in the Eastern Woodlands / David G. Anderson -- 1. Power of villages / Victor D. Thompson and Jennifer Birch -- 2. Collective action and village life during the late archaic on the Georgia coast / Victor D. Thompson -- 3. Powers of place in the predestined Middle Woodland village / Neill Wallis -- 4. Size matters: Kolomoki (9ER1) and the power of the hypertrophic village / Shaun E. West, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, and Martin Menz -- 5. When villages do not form: a case study from the Piedmont Village tradition-Mississippian borderlands, AD 1200-1600 / Eric E. Jones -- 6. Initial northern Iroquoian coalescence / Jennifer Birch and Ronald F. Williamson -- 7. Path to the council house: the development of Mississippian communities in southeast Tennessee / Lynne E. Sullivan -- 8. Village remains the same: a Fort Ancient example / Robert A. Cook -- 9. Population aggregation and the emergence of circular villages in southwest Virginia / Richard W. Jeffries -- 10. Power of Powhatan towns: socializing manitou in the Algonquian Chesapeake / Martin D. Gallivan, Christopher J. Shephard, and Jessica A. Jenkins -- 11. From nucleated villages to dispersed networks: transformations in Seneca Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) community structure, circa AD 1669-1779 / Kurt A. Jordan -- 12. It took a Childe to raze the village / Charles R. Cobb.
Call Number
JFE 19-609
ISBN
  • 9781683400462
  • 1683400461
LCCN
2018000535
OCLC
1019840636
Title
The archaeology of villages in eastern North America / edited by Jennifer Birch and Victor D. Thompson.
Publisher
Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series
Ripley P. Bullen series.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Birch, Jennifer, 1980- editor.
Thompson, Victor D., author.
Research Call Number
JFE 19-609
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