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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Mississippian Culture"”.
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Big Men in the Big Black Valley: Small Scale Late Prehistoric Community Organization in Central Mississippi
… within a late prehistoric period, small-scale Mississippian culture that inhabited the valley from A.D. 1200-1500. The settlement system was characterized by the Old Hoover platform mound (22Ho502) and its outlying non-mound support population of homesteads, referred to as a two-tiered …
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Unsortable Wares: A Petrographic Analysis of Addis Temper from the Fatherland Site (22AD501), Adams County, Mississippi
… two different ceramic tempers (and presumably cultures) existed side-by-side. Areas in which grog or clay tempering occurs are considered part of the Plaquemine Culture. Areas in which shell tempering predominates are considered part of the Mississippian Culture. Ceramic pastes that contain …
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Afterimages of Kincaid Mounds
… trajectory in the broader Ohio Valley and Mississippian culture.
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Cultural Pluralism and Complexity: Analyzing a Cahokian Ritual Outpost
… were a key element in the production of Mississippian culture, as well a new kind of social and political complexity.
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Between two worlds: The Shelbyville locality, A.D. 600-1300
… through two alternative explanatory models of culture change. A traditional Migration model is examined to explain culture changes associated with the emergence of Mississippian culture. This model is rejected as inappropriate. The alternative Regional Interaction model is found suitable for …
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Mississippian Feasting Strategies In the Lower Mississippi Valley: Archaeobotanical Analysis of Two Features From Winterville Mounds (22WS500)
… of Greenville, Mississippi, is representative of Mississippian culture in the lower Mississippi River valley. Botanical macroremains from flotation samples from two large pit features from the Winterville site have been chosen for this study: Feature 113, a large midden, and Feature 5, a refuse …
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An Archaeological Model of the Construction of Monks Mound and Implications for the Development of the Cahokian Society (800 - 1400 A.D.)
This dissertation presents a model for the development of Cahokian society through the lens of monumental construction. Previous models of Cahokian society have emphasized the accumulation of individual power and domination of the many by a few. Using analogies from the ethnography and ethnohistory …