Cahokia and the Hinterlands explores cultural interactions among Cahokians and other Middle Mississippian populations across the Midcontinent, covering topics as diverse as economic modeling, craft specialization, settlement patterns, agricultural and subsistence systems, and the development of social ranking. Proposing sophisticated and innovative models for the growth, development, and decline of Mississippian culture at Cahokia and elsewhere, this volume also provides insight into the rise of chiefdoms and stratified societies and the development of trade throughout the world.
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"This handsome volume defines the place of Cahokia, as currently understood, within a wide regional and cultural context. As such, it provides a number of important new models to replace simplistic diffusional theories that have been uncritically accepted for too long... It belongs on the short list of titles about Midwestern archaeology that those who do archaeology cannot do without." -- James M. Collins, Journal of the Iowa Archaeological Society "Exceptionally well done." -- Mary Ann Graham, Plains Anthropologist "Emerson and Lewis are to be commended for assembling such a diverse group of regional specialists. Collectively, these authors have produced a provocative volume that should be on the bookshelf of everyone interested in the prehistory of the midcontinent. The impressive regional syntheses and the various ideas regarding contact situations are sure to be referred to and argued over for many years to come." -- George R. Milner, Missouri Archaeological Society Quarterly
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The first useful description of the Cahokia archaeological site does not come from the pen of Jacques Marquette or any other of the early French or British chroniclers in the Illinois country but is the brief account entered in a field notebook by a deputy surveyor named Messinger in 1808. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cordmarked jars, gateway locality, starchy seed complex, interior red slip, associated pit features, cordmarked sherds, bluff pottery, cordmarked vessels, spider gorgets, phase ceramic assemblage, rattle anklets, calumet ceremonialism, bison scapula hoes, triangular projectile points, nonceramic artifacts, cordmarked pottery, red filmed, limestone temper, late prehistoric societies, temporal affiliation, marine shell beads, body sherds, incised jars, chert hoes, village debris Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Bottom, Late Woodland, Middle Mississippian, Mill Creek, Spoon River, Apple River, Kaskaskia Valley, Ramey Incised, Sand Prairie, Illinois River, Powell Plain, Great Oasis, Starr Village, Red Wing, Jasper Newman, Monks Mound, Old Village, Wabash Valley, Cahokia Cordmarked, Doctor's Island, Silver Creek, Middle Woodland, Mills Village, Norris Farms, Sweat Bee New!
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The first useful description of the Cahokia archaeological site does not come from the pen of Jacques Marquette or any other of the early French or British chroniclers in the Illinois country but is the brief account entered in a field notebook by a deputy surveyor named Messinger in 1808. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cordmarked jars, gateway locality, starchy seed complex, interior red slip, associated pit features, cordmarked sherds, bluff pottery, cordmarked vessels, spider gorgets, phase ceramic assemblage, rattle anklets, calumet ceremonialism, bison scapula hoes, triangular projectile points, nonceramic artifacts, cordmarked pottery, red filmed, limestone temper, late prehistoric societies, temporal affiliation, marine shell beads, body sherds, incised jars, chert hoes, village debris Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Bottom, Late Woodland, Middle Mississippian, Mill Creek, Spoon River, Apple River, Kaskaskia Valley, Ramey Incised, Sand Prairie, Illinois River, Powell Plain, Great Oasis, Starr Village, Red Wing, Jasper Newman, Monks Mound, Old Village, Wabash Valley, Cahokia Cordmarked, Doctor's Island, Silver Creek, Middle Woodland, Mills Village, Norris Farms, Sweat Bee New!
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