Signs of power:the rise of cultural complexity in the Southeast

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Gibson Jon L.; Carr Philip J., 1966-
Published: University of Alabama Press,
Publisher Address: Tuscaloosa
Publication Dates: c2004.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xv,383 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0817313915 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817313913 (cloth : alk. paper)
0817350853 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780817350857 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: K887
CLC: K887.12
Call Number: K887.12/S578
Contents: Donation.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-364) and index.
Big mounds, big rings, big power / Jon L. Gibson and Philip J. Carr -- Late archaic fisher-foragers in the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee Valley, northwest Florida-south Georgia/Alabama / Nancy Marie White -- Measuring shell rings for social inequality / Michael Russo -- Regional-scale interaction networks and the emergence of cultural complexity along the northern margins of the Southeast / Richard W. Jefferies -- The Green River in comparison to the Lower Mississippi Valley during the archaic: to build mounds or not to build mounds? / George M. Crothers -- Cultural complexity in the middle archaic of Mississippi / Samuel O. Brookes -- The Burkett Site (23MI20): implications for cultural complexity and origins / Prentice M. Thomas, Jr., L. Janice Campbell, and James R. Morehead -- Poverty Point chipped-stone tool raw materials: inferring social and economic strategies / Philip J. Carr and Lee H. Stewart -- Are we fixing to make the same mistake again? / Joe Saunders -- Surrounding the sacred: geometry and design of early mound groups as meaning and function / John E. Clark -- Crossing the symbolic Rubicon in the Southeast / Kenneth E. Sassaman and Michael J. Heckenberger -- Explaining sociopolitical complexity in the foraging adaptations of the southeastern United States: the roles of demography, kinship, and ecology in sociocultural evolution / Randolph J. Widmer -- The power of beneficent obligation in first mound-building societies / Jon L. Gibson -- Archaic mounds and the archeology of southeastern tribal societies / David G. Anderson -- Old mounds, ancient hunter-gatherers, and modern archaeologists / George R. Milner.