Mississippian Beginnings
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Mississippian Beginnings

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Mississippian Beginnings

About this book

Using fresh evidence and nontraditional ideas, the contributing authors of Mississippian Beginnings reconsider the origins of the Mississippian culture of the North American Midwest and Southeast (A.D. 1000ā€“1600). Challenging the decades-old opinion that this culture evolved similarly across isolated Woodland popuĀ¬lations, they discuss signs of migrations, missionization, pilgrimages, violent conflicts, long-distance exchange, and other far-flung entanglements that now appear to have shaped the early Mississippian past. Presenting recent fieldwork from a wide array of sites including Cahokia and the American Bottom, archival studies, and new investigations of legacy collections, the contributors interpret results through contemporary perspectives that emphasize agency and historical contingency. They track the various ways disparate cultures across a sizeable swath of the continent experienced Mississippianization and came to share simiĀ¬lar architecture, pottery, subsistence strategies, sociopolitical organization, iconography, and religion. Together, these essays provide the most comprehensive examination of early Mississippian culture in over thirty years. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Tables
  7. 1. Mississippian Origins: From Emergence to Beginnings
  8. 2. Maize and Mississippian Beginnings
  9. 3. Cahokiaā€™s Beginnings: Mobility, Urbanization, and the Cahokian Political Landscape
  10. 4. The Mississippianization of the Illinois and Apple River Valleys
  11. 5. Mississippian Processes and Histories: The Evolution of Fort Ancient Culture in the Miami Valleys
  12. 6. The Relationship between Becoming Caddo and Becoming Mississippian in the Middle Red River Drainage
  13. 7. Early Mississippian in the North Carolina Piedmont
  14. 8. The Hollywood Site (9RI1) and the Foundations of Mississippian in the Middle Savannah River Valley
  15. 9. Fort Walton Mississippian Beginnings in the Apalachicolaā€“Lower Chattahoochee River Valley of Northwest Florida, Southwest Georgia, and Southeast Alabama
  16. 10. Mississippian Beginnings: Multiple Perspectives on Migration, Monumentality, and Religion in the Prehistoric Eastern United States
  17. List of Contributors
  18. Index