"A Dan Josselyn memorial publication"--Preliminary page.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-168) and index.
Introduction -- Mississippian communities and households -- Moundville households in space and time -- Architecture and community organization -- Ceramics at early Moundville -- Discussion and conclusions -- Appendix 1: Architectural data -- Appendix 2: Counts and frequencies of all sherds by context.
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Complex Mississippian polities were neither developed nor sustained in a vacuum. A broad range of small-scale social groups played a variety of roles in the emergence of regionally organized political hierarchies that governed large-scale ceremonial centers. Recent research has revealed the extent to which interactions among corporately organized clans led to the development, success, and collapse of Moundville. These insights into Moundville's social complexity are based primarily on the study of monumental architecture and mortuary ceremonialism. Less is known about how everyday domestic pra.
Archaeology of everyday life at early Moundville.
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Mississippian culture-- Alabama-- Black Warrior River Valley.
Mississippian pottery-- Alabama-- Black Warrior River Valley.
Social archaeology-- Alabama-- Black Warrior River Valley.