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The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America

Title
The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America [electronic resource] / edited by Jennifer Birch and Victor D. Thompson.
Publication
Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2018]

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Additional Authors
  • Birch, Jennifer, 1980-
  • Thompson, Victor D.
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 211 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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
Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America (Online)
Subject
  • Indians of North America > East (U.S.) > Antiquities
  • Woodland Indians > East (U.S.) > Antiquities
  • East (U.S.) > Antiquities
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Foreword: Crafting community and identity in the eastern woodlands / David G. Anderson -- The compelling power of villages / Victor D. Thompson and Jennifer Birch -- Collective action and village life during the late archaic on the Georgia coast / Victor D. Thompson -- Powers of place in the predestined middle woodland village / Neill Wallis -- Size matters: kolomoki (9er1) and the power of the hypertrophic village / Shaun E. West, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, and Martin Menz -- When villages do not form: a case study from the Piedmont Village tradition-Mississippian borderlands, 1200-1600 ce / Eric E. Jones -- Initial northern Iroquoian coalescence / Jennifer Birch and Ronald F. Williamson -- The path to the council house: the development of Mississippian communities in southeast Tennessee / Lynne E. Sullivan -- The village remains the same: a Fort Ancient example / Robert A. Cook -- Population aggregation and the emergence of circular villages in southwest Virginia / Richard W. Jeffries -- The power of Powhatan towns: socializing manitou in the Algonquian Chesapeake / Martin D. Gallivan, Christopher J. Shephard, and Jessica A. Jenkins -- From nucleated villages to dispersed networks: transformations in Seneca Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) community structure, circa 1669-1779 ce / Kurt A. Jordan -- It took a Childe to raze the village / Charles R. Cobb.
LCCN
2018000535
OCLC
ssj0002080249
Title
The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America [electronic resource] / edited by Jennifer Birch and Victor D. Thompson.
Imprint
Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2018]
Series
Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Birch, Jennifer, 1980-
Thompson, Victor D.
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