Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi Format: Paperback

ISBN 10: 081730455X / ISBN 13: 9780817304553

Published by University of Chicago press, 1990

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi Format: Paperback
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081730455X
• ISBN 13: 9780817304553
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication

Discover the stories, structures, and spirit that shaped life along America’s greatest river.

Specialists from archaeology, ethnohistory, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology bring their varied points of view to this subject in an attempt to answer basic questions about the nature and extent of social change within the time period. The scholars' overriding concerns include presentation of a scientifically accurate depiction of the native cultures in the Central Mississippi Valley prior and immediately subsequent to European contact and the need to document the ensuing social and biological changes that eventually led to the widespread depopulation and cultural reorientation. Their findings lead to three basic hypotheses that will focus the scholarly research for decades to come.

Contributors include:

George J. Armelagos, Ian W. Brown, Chester B. DePratter, George F. Fielder, Jr., James B. Griffin, M. Cassandra Hill, Michael P. Hoffman, Charles Hudson, R. Barry Lewis, Dan F. Morse, Phyllis A. Morse, Mary Lucas Powell, Cynthia R. Price, James F. Price, Gerald P. Smith, Marvin T. Smith, and Stephen Williams
 

About the Author

David H. Dye is an Associate Professor of Archaeology in the Earth Sciences Department at the University of Memphis. He received his doctorate in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 1980. Dr. Dye’s recent work has focused on the archaeology of warfare in the Eastern Woodlands. He is coeditor with Cheryl Anne Cox of Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi.