Ceramics, Chronology and Community Patterns: An Archaeological Study at Moundville (Studies in Archaeology) - Softcover

Steponaitis, Vincas P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0126662800 ISBN 13: 9780126662801

Publisher: Emerald Publishing, 1982

Synopsis

This book should prove useful to scholars in a variety of ways, for it deals with culture-historical, methodological, and evolutionary issues from shedding light on Moundville's development. In addressing matters of culture history, the study presents a detailed and well documented Mississippian chronology. It systemises and describes the late prehistoric ceramics from an important site, providing a benchmark that can be used in future studies of trade and stylistic interaction. And, perhaps even more importantly, it synthesizes the available information on Moundville's development, taking into account settlement, subsistence, and mortuary evidence.

About this title

About the Author:

Vincas P. Steponaitis is Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, and Chair of the Curriculum in Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Review:

“ This study is stimulating, authoritative, and illustrates the research potential of museum collections. It will undoubtedly prove to be a lasting contribution to the archaeology of the American Southeast.”

— Man

“ This book should stand for many years not only as a chronological benchmark for the last half millennium of prehistory in the Southeast, but also as a methodological classic that will be of enduring interest to archaeologists grappling with problems of chronological control and cultural process.”

— Science

"An important contribution to the later prehistory of Alabama."

— American Antiquity

About this edition

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0126662800
• ISBN 13: 9780126662801
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 404