Etowah
Subtitle: the political history of a chiefdom capital
By: Adam King
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: Mississippian culture -- Georgia -- Etowah River Valley; Chiefdoms -- Georgia -- Etowah River Valley; Mississippian pottery -- Georgia -- Etowah River Valley; Social archaeology -- Georgia -- Etowah River Valley; Etowah Indian Mound State Historic Site (Ga.); Etowah River Valley (Ga.) -- Antiquities
Description: This is a detailed reconstruction of the waxing and waning of political fortunes among the chiefly elites at an important center of the prehistoric world. At the time the first Europeans arrived in the New World, thousands of earthen platform mounds dotted the landscape of eastern North America. Only a few of the mound sites have survived the ravages of time and the devastation of pilferers; one of these valuable monuments is Etowah, located near Cartersville in northern Georgia. Over a period of more than 100 years, excavations of the site's six mounds--and in particular Mound C--has yielded.
Notes: "A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-174) and index