Covering topics as diverse as economic modeling, craft specialization, settlement patterns, agricultural and subsistence systems, and the development of social ranking, Cahokia and the Hinterlands explores cultural interactions among Cahokians and the inhabitants of other population centers, including Orensdorf and the Dickson Mounds in Illinois and Aztalan in Wisconsin, as well as sites in Minnesota, Iowa, and at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Proposing sophisticated and innovative models for the ...
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Covering topics as diverse as economic modeling, craft specialization, settlement patterns, agricultural and subsistence systems, and the development of social ranking, Cahokia and the Hinterlands explores cultural interactions among Cahokians and the inhabitants of other population centers, including Orensdorf and the Dickson Mounds in Illinois and Aztalan in Wisconsin, as well as sites in Minnesota, Iowa, and at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. Proposing sophisticated and innovative models for the growth, development, and decline of Mississippian culture at Cahokia and elsewhere, this volume also provides insight into the rise of chiefdoms and stratified societies and the development of trade throughout the world.
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VG but with occasional small/light pencil notations within text. Terracotta cloth/boards. Tan dj with green decoration and printing. Mylar cover. 357 pp. with bw figures, plans, maps, photos, and more, numbered by chapter. This book details the rise of a complex prehistoric society that influenced cultures throughout the Midwest. Illustrated with maps, drawings of artifacts, charts, tables, and photographs, its contributors cover the development of social ranking, regional cultural variation, cultural taxonomy, economic modeling, craft specialization, settlement patterns, models of frontier developments, and agricultural and subsistence systems. The Cahokia site is what is now SW Illinois and covers 6 square miles. It contains more than 100 earthen mounds surrounded by a network of towns and households tied to the center via kinship, economics, and common ideology.
