| Lamar Archaeology: Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Deep South First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Williams, Mark (Editor), Smith, Marvin T. (Contribution by), Anderson, David G. (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 0817304665 ISBN-13: 9780817304669 Publisher: University Alabama Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 976.01 |
| LCCN: 89-4941 |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.13" W x 9.02" (0.90 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication Lamar Archaeology provides a comprehensive and detailed review of our knowledge of the late prehistoric Indian societies in the Southern Appalachian area and its peripheries. These Lamar societies were chiefdom-level groups who built most of the mounds in this large region and were ancestors of later tribes, including the Creeks and Cherokees. This book begins with a history of the last 50 years of archaeological and historical research and brings together for the first time all the available data on this early culture. It also provides an invaluable model for books about Southeastern Indian societies by combining purely descriptive information with innovative analyses, advancing our knowledge of the past while remaining firmly grounded in the archaeological evidence as fact. Contributors include: Frankie Snow, Chad O. Braley, James B. Langford Jr., Marvin T. Smith, Daniel T. Elliott, Richard R. Polhemus, C. Roger Nance, Gary Shapiro, Mark Williams, John F. Scarry, David G. Anderson, andCharles M. Hudson |
Contributor Bio(s): Shapiro, Gary: - Gary Shapiro is the Tucker-Boatwright Professor Emeritus of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Richmond. He is the author of many books, including Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art after Babel and Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying. |