Mississippian Community Organization
Subtitle: The Powers Phase in Southeastern Missouri (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: May 31, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780306464805
Subjects: American history: pre-Columbian period, BCE to c 1500; North American archaeology; c 1000 CE to c 1500; U.S. Local History - Old Southwest States; History; History - U.S.; History: American; Mississippi; Missouri; Anthropology - General; Archaeology; Social Science / Archaeology; United States - State & Local - General; Archaeological surveying; Chiefdoms; Little Black River Region (Ark; Little Black River Region (Ark. and Mo.); Mississippian culture; Social archaeology
First sentence: For more than five centuries before the arrival of Europeans in the New World, many of the fertile river valleys in what is now the eastern United States were inhabited by societies archaeologists commonly refer to as Mississippian.