During the Mississippian period (approximately A.D. 1000-1600) in the midwestern and southeastern United States a variety of greater and lesser chiefdoms took shape. Archaeologists have for many years explored the nature of these chiefdoms from the perspective common in archaeol…
Alabama and the Borderlands: From Prehistory To Statehood
by Smith, Bruce D., Griffin, James B., Krause, Richard A., Hudson, Charles, Smith, Marvin T., Badger, Reid, University of Alabama., College of Arts and Sciences, Lyon, Eugene, Brain, Jeffrey P., DePratter, Chester B., Coker, Hazel P., Coker, William S., Scardaville, Michale C., Washburn, Wilcomb, Clayton, Lawrence
Born of a concern with Alabama's past and the need to explore and explain that legacy, this book brings together the nation's leading scholars on the prehistory and early history of Alabama and the southeastern U.S. Covering topics ranging from the Mississippian Period in archae…
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication Until recently, archaeological projects that included analysis of human remains had often lacked active collaboration between archaeologists and physical anthropologists from the planning stages onward. During the 1980s, a conjunctive approach…