Circular villages of the Monongahela tradition
By: Bernard K. Means
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780817315733; 9780817354381
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Dwellings -- Pennsylvania; Indians of North America -- Dwellings -- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.); Indian architecture -- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.); Central-plan buildings -- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.); Land settlement patterns -- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.); Social archaeology -- Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.); Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-187) and index
Table of contents: title: Village spatial layouts and social organizations; title: A review of the late prehistoric Monongahela tradition and the new chronology for Allegheny Mountains villages; title: Villages, communities, and social organizations; title: Building models of village spatial and social organizations; title: Models and hypotheses related to community organization; title: Data sources, variables, and analytical approaches; title: Modeling community patterning from select village components in the Allegheny Mountains region; title: Comparative analyses from modeling individual village components; title: Implications drawn from interpreting community organization through village spatial layouts