Caborn-Welborn: Constructing a New Society after the Angel Chiefdom Collapse - Softcover

Pollack, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817351264 ISBN 13: 9780817351267

Publisher: University Alabama Press, 2004

Synopsis

Caborn-Welborn, a late Mississippian (A.D. 1400-1700) farming society centered at the confluence of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers (in what is now southwestern Indiana, southeastern Illinois, and northwestern Kentucky), developed following the collapse of the Angel chiefdom (A.D. 1000-1400). Using ceramic and settlement data, David Pollack examines the ways in which that new society reconstructed social, political, and economic relationships from the remnants of the Angel chiefdom.
This book makes available for the first time detailed, well-illustrated descriptions of Caborn-Welborn ceramics, identifies ceramic types and attributes that reflect Caborn-Welborn interaction with Oneota tribal groups and central Mississippi valley Mississippian groups, and offers an internal regional chronology. Based on intraregional differences in ceramic decoration, the types of vessels interred with the dead, and cemetery location, Pollack suggests that in addition to the former Angel population, Caborn-Welborn society may have included households that relocated to the Ohio/Wabash confluence from nearby collapsing polities, and that Caborn-Welborns sociopolitical organization could be better considered as a riverine confederacy.

About this title

About the Author:

David Pollack is Staff Archaeologist with the Kentucky Heritage Council and Director of the Kentucky Archaeological Survey.

Review:

"A fine scholarly presentation of the data, resulting in a new interpretation of this culture. . . . Dr. Pollack has produced an excellent case study of the collapse of a Mississippian society and its subsequent reformation. Since the unfortunate looting of the Slack Farm site in the late 1980s, archaeologists have wanted to see information on this society. . . . The graphics are most impressive."--Marvin T. Smith, Valdosta State University

About this edition

• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0817351264
• ISBN 13: 9780817351267
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248