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Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas heritage volume no. 18
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Language
English
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Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Lexile measure
1390L
Language
English
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Description
This dramatic and controversial new interpretation of Cahokian leadership strategies examines the authority a ruling elite exercised over the surrounding countryside through a complex of social, political, and religious forms. Using the theoretical concepts of agency, power, and ideology, this study explores the development of cultural complexity within the hierarchically organized Cahokia Middle Mississippian society of the American Bottom from the...
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Describes what is known of the ancient city of Cahokia, a site in present-day Illinois which was inhabited by Native Americans from about 700 A.D. to 1400 A.D., the Missippippian culture of which it was a part, and the archaeological investigations undertaken there.
Author
Series
Studies in archaeology volume no. 2
Publisher
Illinois Transportation Archeological Research Program, University of Illinois
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English