eBook: Cahokia's Complexities: Ceremonies and Politics of the First Mississippian Farmers (DRM EPUB)

電子書格式:	DRM EPUB
作者:	Alt Susan M. Alt
系列:	Archaeology of the American South: New Directions
書城編號:	20570938

售價: $649.00

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製造商:	University of Alabama Press
出版日期:	2018/04/24
頁數:	168
ISBN:	9780817391737

商品簡介

Critical new discoveries and archaeological patterns increase understanding of early Mississippian culture and society.The reasons for the rise and fall of early cities and ceremonial centers around the world have been sought for centuries. In the United States, Cahokia has been the focus of intense archaeological work to explain its mysteries. Cahokia was the first and exponentially the largest of the Mississippian centers that appeared across the Midwest and Southeast after AD 1000. Located near present-day East St. Louis, Illinois, the central complex of Cahokia spanned more than 12 square kilometers and encompassed more than 120 earthen mounds.As one of the foremost experts on Cahokia, Susan M. Alt addresses long-standing considerations of eastern Woodlands archaeology-the beginnings, character, and ending of Mississippian culture (AD 1050-1600)-from a novel theoretical and empirical vantage point. Through this case study on farmers' immigration and resettling, Alt's narrative reanalyzes the relationship between administration and diversity, incorporating critical new discoveries and archaeological patterns from outside of Cahokia.Alt examines the cultural landscape of the Cahokia flood plain and the layout of one extraordinary upland site, Grossman, as an administrative settlement where local farmers might have seen or participated in Cahokian rituals and ceremonies involving a web of ancestors, powers, and places. Alt argues that a farming district outside the center provides definitive evidences of the attempted centralized administration of a rural hinterland.

Archaeology of the American South: New Directions