Caborn-Welborn: constructing a new society after the Angel Chiefdom collapse
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Main Author: Pollack, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, Ala. University of Alabama Press ©2004
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228) and index
Pre-A.D. 1400 Mississippian regional centers, Angel's collapse, and Caborn-Welborn developments in the lower Ohio River Valley -- Ceramic descriptions -- Site types and their spatial distribution -- Temporal trends -- Cultural and functional ceramic patterns -- Interpretations and conclusions
An important case study of chiefdom collapse and societal reemergence. Caborn-Welborn, a late Mississippian (A.D. 1400?) farming society centered at the confluence of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers (in what is now southwestern Indiana, southeastern Illinois, and northwestern Kentucky), developed following the collapse of the Angel chiefdom (A.D. 1000?). Using ceramic and settlement data, David Pollack examines the ways in which that new society reconstructed social, political, and economic relationships from the remnants of the Angel chiefdom. Unlike most instances of the demise of a complex socie
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 234 pages)
ISBN:0817382232
9780817382230

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