The Settlement Patterns and Social Power of Cahokia's Hinterland Households

Recent archaeological fieldwork in the American Bottom has yielded a large amount of new data on the prehistoric farmsteads that surrounded the mound centers there. These data are synthesized here in a settlement study of building, household, and village organization. During late prehistory (A.D. 950-1400) trends of change at small-scale settlements paralleled regional developments as rural households played new roles in the increasingly complex regional systems. The chronological patterns of settlement system development discovered here have implications for the ways that social power is shared in an evolving settlement hierarchy. These implications are incorporated in a new regional settlement model of rural household organization and dispersal in the American Bottom.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Anthropology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Mehrer, Mark William

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lewis, R. Barry

• Anthropology, Archaeology
• Architecture

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8908776

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70704