Ancient complexities : new perspectives in Precolumbian North America / edited by Susan M. Alt.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Alt, Susan M., 1959-
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2010], ©2010.
Series:Foundations of archaeological inquiry.
Subjects:
Social archaeology > North America.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Antiquities.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Social life and customs.
North America > Antiquities.
Physical Description:ix, 236 pages : illustrations, maps.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Considering complexity : confounding categories with practices / Susan M. Alt
  • (E)mergent complexities during the Archaic period in Northeast Florida
  • Asa R. Randall and Kenneth E. Sassaman
  • Hunter-gatherer ritual and complexity : new evidence from Poverty Point, Louisiana / Tristram R. Kidder
  • Practicing complexity (past and present) at Kolomoki / Thomas J. Pluckhahn
  • Sacrificing complexity : renewal through Ohio Hopewell rituals / Bretton Giles
  • Mobile farmers and sedentary models: horticulture and cultural transitions in late Woodland and Contact period New England / Elizabeth S. Chilton
  • Confounding kinship : ritual regional organization in Northern Michigan, a.d. 12001600 / Meghan C. L. Howey
  • Complexity in action(s) : retelling the Cahokia story / Susan M. Alt
  • Categories of complexity and the preclusion of practice / Jon Bernard Marcoux and Gregory D. Wilson
  • Landscapes of complexity in the U.S. Southwest : the Hohokam, Chacoans, and peer polity interaction / Jill E. Neitzel
  • The good gray intermediate : why native societies of North America can't be states / Stephen H. Lekson
  • A people's history of the American Southwest / Severin Fowles
  • Downsizers, upgraders, cultural constructors, and social producers / Robert Chapman
  • The unbearable lightness of complexity / Norman Yoffee.