Sunwatch
Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World
Cook, Robert A.
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
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 late prehistory of the region.
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“Cook presents some interesting ideas regarding Fort Ancient society and the consequences of interaction between Fort Ancient societies and Mississippian societies.” —John Scarry, author of Political Structure and Change in the Prehistoric Southeastern United States
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 081731590X
ISBN(13-digit): 9780817315900
Dewey Decimal: 973.1/73
Library of Congress: 2007016106
Book Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 197
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