Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi

by Dye, David H.; Cox, Cheryl Anne

• ISBN13: 9780817304553
• ISBN10: 081730455X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-05-30
• Publisher: Univ of Alabama Pr

Summary

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication 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

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Comments on the Late Prehistoric Societies in the Southeast	p. 5
An Evaluation of the Biocultural Consequences of the Mississippian Transformation	p. 16
The Late Prehistory of the Ohio-Mississippi Rivers Confluence Region, Kentucky and Missouri	p. 38
Acknowledgements	p. 58
Protohistoric/Early Historic Manifestations in Southeastern Missouri	p. 59
The Nodena Phase	p. 69
Health and Disease at Nodena: A Late Mississippian Community in Northeastern Arkansas	p. 98
The Parkin Site and the Parkin Phase	p. 118
The Walls Phase and Its Neighbors	p. 135
The Vacant Quarter and Other Late Events in the Lower Valley	p. 170
The Hernando De Soto Expedition: from Mabila to the Mississippi River	p. 181
Acknowledgements	p. 205
The Terminal Mississippian Period in the Arkansas River Valley and Quapaw Ethnogenesis	p. 208
Historic Indians of the Lower Mississippi Valley: An Archaeologist's View	p. 227
Comprehensive Planning for the Protection and Preservation of Mississippian Sites in Tennessee	p. 239
References Cited	p. 246
Contributors	p. 280
Index	p. 284
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