SunWatch : Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World

ISBN-13: 9780817315900 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 216 str.

Robert A. Cook

Opis

The last prehistoric cultures to inhabit the Middle Ohio Valley (ca. A.D. 1000 1650) are referred to as Fort Ancient societies, which exhibited a wide variety of Mississippian period characteristics.What is less well-known and little understood are the social processes by which Mississippian characteristics spread to Fort Ancient communities. Through a comprehensive study of SunWatch, one of the few thoroughly excavated Fort Ancient settlements, the author focuses on the development of village social structure within a broad geographic and temporal framework, recognizing border areas as particularly dynamic contexts of social change. As a fundamental study of social patterning of Fort Ancient villages, this work reveals the interrelationships of small social units in culture change and social structure development and provides a full reconsideration of the Mississippian dimensions of Fort Ancient societies and a model for future investigations of larger patterning in the lateprehistory of the region."