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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good in wraps showing some light handling. Light wear to the top edge of the text block. Contents clean and unmarked. xxix, 426pp.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research over the past 25 years. Researchers have learned that in this approximately 2000-year era the peoples of the Southeast experienced increasing sedentism, population growth, and organizational complexity. At the beginning of the period, people are assumed to have been living in small groups, loosely bound by collective burial rituals. But by the first millennium A.D., some parts of the region had densely packed civic ceremonial centers ruled by hereditary elites. Maize was now the primary food crop. Perhaps most importantly, the ancient animal-focused and hunting-based religion and cosmology were being replaced by solar and warfare iconography, consistent with societies dependent on agriculture, and whose elites were increasingly in competition with one another. This volume synthesizes the research on what happened during this era and how these changes came about while analyzing the period's archaeological record.In gathering the latest research available on the Woodland Period, the editors have included contributions from the full range of specialists working in the field, highlighted major themes, and directed readers to the proper primary sources. Of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists, both professional and amateur, this will be a valuable reference work essential to understanding the Woodland Period in the Southeast. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 276 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 236 pages. 8.75x5.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

First edition thus INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY WILLIAM STYRON. [6], 309 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed; splatter staining to spine with shallow overlap into front panel; shallow chipping, tears, and creasing at edges with old tape repairs/reinforcements on verso; toning to rear panel and flaps; front flap retains publisher's printed price at top right; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Black cloth; spine slightly cocked. Black top edge; light toning to fore-edge and bottom edge. Endpapers toned with light stains to pastedowns. Three-line ink inscription "To Carson Holloman | best wishes | William Styron" upon half-title page with his secondary signature "William Styron" on page 269. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a good+ dust jacket. The book's inscribee, Curtis Carson Holloman Jr. (1939-1991), served on the English Department faculty at Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia, Mississippi and many of the signed/inscribed books in his collection were obtained at events held at the University of Mississippi in nearby Oxford.…