The Ascent of Chiefs: Cahokia and Mississippian Politics in Native North America

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University of Alabama Press, 1994. 9. 30. - 235페이지
Provides a theoretical explanation of how prehistoric Cahokia became a stratified society

Considering Cahokia in terms of class struggle, Pauketat claims that the political consolidation in this region of the Mississippi Valley happened quite suddenly, around A.D. 1000, after which the lords of Cahokia innovated strategies to preserve their power and ultimately emerged as divine chiefs. The new ideas and new data in this volume will invigorate the debate surrounding one of the most important developments in North American prehistory.
 

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A Mississippian Leviathan
1
2 Chiefdoms in Theory and Practice
8
3 The Sociohistorical Context of the American Bottom Region
40
4 Central and Rural Mississippian Patterns
66
5 Diachronic Community and Architectural Evidence
108
6 Diachronic Artifactual Evidence
141
7 The Generation of the Cahokian Leviathan
168
Bibliography
191
Index
231
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Timothy R. Pauketat is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma.

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