Ancient Complexities: New Perspectives in PreColumbian North America

ISBN-13: 9781607810261 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 236 str.

Susan Alt

Opis

A current overview of what is meant by cultural c omplexity and how archaeologists study the developoment of complex societies in North America.

Spis treści

Susan Alt, ed., Ancient Complexities:

 

Contents

 

List of Figures

List of Tables

1. Considering Complexity: Confounding Categories with Practices

     Susan M. Alt

2. (E)mergent Complexities during the Archaic Period in Northeast Florida

     Asa R. Randall and Kenneth E. Sassaman

3. Hunter-Gatherer Ritual and Complexity: New Evidence from Poverty Point, Louisiana

     Tristram R. Kidder

4. Practicing Complexity (Past and Present) at Kolomoki

     Thomas J. Pluckhahn

5. Sacrificing Complexity: Renewal through Ohio Hopewell Rituals

     Bretton Giles

6. Mobile Farmers and Sedentary Models: Horticulture and Cultural Transitions in Late Woodland and Contact Period New England

     Elizabeth S. Chilton

7. Confounding Kinship: Ritual Regional Organization in Northern Michigan, A.D. 1200-1600

     Meghan C. L. Howey

8. Complexity in Action(s): Retelling the Cahokia Story

     Susan M. Alt

9. Categories of Complexity and the Preclusion of Practice

     Jon Bernard Marcoux and Gregory D. Wilson

10. Landscapes of Complexity in the U.S. Southwest: The Hohokam, Chacoans, and Peer Polity Interaction

     Jill E. Neitzel

11. The Good Gray Intermediate: Why Native Societies of North America Can't Be States

     Stephen H. Lekson

12. A People’s History of the American Southwest

     Severin Fowles

13. Downsizers, Upgraders, Cultural Constructors, and Social Producers

     Robert Chapman

14. The Unbearable Lightness of Complexity

     Norman Yoffee

List of Contributors

Index