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- catalog abstract "Encompassing more than 100 earthen mounds that were constructed during the eleventh through fourteenth centuries, Cahokia is the centerpiece of an area east of St. Louis uncommonly rich in archaeological sites. Because the mounds at Cahokia are more numerous than at any other Mississippian period site in North America, scholars have long believed that they were constructed by a populous, politically centralized, economically differentiated society supported by a vast hinterland. Drawing on his own extensive surveys and excavations, and on a wide array of research that has been conducted in the central Mississippi Valley during the past several decades, George R. Milner argues that, while clearly impressive for its time, Cahokia-area society differed little in its basic organization from the smaller, less complex chiefdoms that dotted the southern Eastern Woodlands. He demonstrates that the many mounds, the focus of so much archaeological attention, could have been constructed with the labor of far fewer people than previously supposed. In The Cabokia Chiefdom, Milner provides a comprehensive view of a chiefdom that, despite its impressive architecture, was not nearly as densely settled or complex as conventional wisdom would have us believe.".
- catalog contributor b11044760.
- catalog coverage "American Bottom (Ill.) Antiquities.".
- catalog coverage "Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "A stupendous pile of earth -- A huge silver serpent -- Great quantities of earthen ware & flints -- No land can surpass its vegetable luxuriance -- Simtoms of antient ruins -- Proofs of an immense population? -- Extraordinary monuments of their social state -- Gray chronicler of hoary centuries -- Appendix: Gazetteer of mound sites.".
- catalog description "Encompassing more than 100 earthen mounds that were constructed during the eleventh through fourteenth centuries, Cahokia is the centerpiece of an area east of St. Louis uncommonly rich in archaeological sites. Because the mounds at Cahokia are more numerous than at any other Mississippian period site in North America, scholars have long believed that they were constructed by a populous, politically centralized, economically differentiated society supported by a vast hinterland. Drawing on his own extensive surveys and excavations, and on a wide array of research that has been conducted in the central Mississippi Valley during the past several decades, George R. Milner argues that, while clearly impressive for its time, Cahokia-area society differed little in its basic organization from the smaller, less complex chiefdoms that dotted the southern Eastern Woodlands. He demonstrates that the many mounds, the focus of so much archaeological attention, could have been constructed with the labor of far fewer people than previously supposed. In The Cabokia Chiefdom, Milner provides a comprehensive view of a chiefdom that, despite its impressive architecture, was not nearly as densely settled or complex as conventional wisdom would have us believe.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-212) and index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 216 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Cahokia chiefdom.".
- catalog identifier "1560988142 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Cahokia chiefdom.".
- catalog isPartOf "Smithsonian series in archaeological inquiry".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog relation "Cahokia chiefdom.".
- catalog spatial "American Bottom (Ill.) Antiquities.".
- catalog spatial "Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.)".
- catalog spatial "Illinois American Bottom".
- catalog spatial "Illinois American Bottom.".
- catalog subject "977.3/89 21".
- catalog subject "Chiefdoms Illinois American Bottom.".
- catalog subject "E99.M6815 M53 1998".
- catalog subject "E99.M6815 M53 1998X".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Illinois American Bottom Politics and government.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Illinois American Bottom Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "Mississippian culture Illinois American Bottom.".
- catalog subject "Social archaeology Illinois American Bottom.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A stupendous pile of earth -- A huge silver serpent -- Great quantities of earthen ware & flints -- No land can surpass its vegetable luxuriance -- Simtoms of antient ruins -- Proofs of an immense population? -- Extraordinary monuments of their social state -- Gray chronicler of hoary centuries -- Appendix: Gazetteer of mound sites.".
- catalog title "The Cahokia chiefdom : the archaeology of a Mississippian society / George R. Milner.".
- catalog type "text".