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One of the most profound events in sixteenth-century North America was a ferocious battle between the Spanish army of Hernando de Soto and a larger force of Indian warriors under the leadership of a feared chieftain named Tascalusa. The site of this battle was a small fortified border town within an Indian province known as Mabila. Although the Indians were defeated, the battle was a decisive blow to Spanish plans for the conquest and settlement of what is now the southeastern United States. For in that battle, De Soto's army lost its baggage, including all proofs of the richness of
Mabila, Battle of, Ala., 1540 --- Spaniards --- Choctaw Indians --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- History --- First contact with other peoples --- Antiquities. --- Soto, Hernando de, --- Tuskaloosa, --- Southern States --- Discovery and exploration --- Spanish
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Colonisation. Decolonisation --- Art --- Archeology --- India --- America
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The two works reprinted in this volume represent the pinnacle of the career of one of the most remarkable American archaeologists of the early 20th century, Clarence Bloomfield Moore. Moore's Certain Aboriginal Remains of the Black Warrior River (1905) and Moundville Revisited (1907) brought the Moundville site in Alabama to the attention of the scholarly world in dramatic fashion by offering a splendid photographic display and expert commentary on its artifactual richness. Moore was the leading southeastern specialist of his day and the most prolific excavator
Mississippian culture --- Indians of North America --- Archaeological expeditions --- Temple Mound culture --- Mound-builders --- Expeditions, Archaeological --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Moore, Clarence B. --- Moore, Clarence Bloomfield, --- Travel --- Alabama --- Moundville Archaeological Park (Moundville, Ala.) --- Mound State Monument (Ala.)
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At its height the Moundville ceremonial center was a densely occupied town of approximately 1,000 residents, with at least 29 earthen mounds surrounding a central plaza. Today, Moundville is not only one the largest and best-preserved Mississippian sites in the United States, but also one of the most intensively studied. This volume brings together nine Moundville specialists who trace the site's evolution and eventual decline.
Social archaeology --- Indian pottery --- Chiefdoms --- Mississippian culture --- Black Warrior River Valley (Ala.) --- Moundville Archaeological Park (Moundville, Ala.) --- Antiquities.
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The De Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in the eastern half of the United States. De Soto and his army of over 600 men, including 200 cavalry, spent four years traveling through what is now Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Northand South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. For anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians the surviving De Soto chronicles are valued for the unique ethnological information they contain. These documents, available here in a two volume set, are the only detailed eyewitnes
Spaniards --- Indians of North America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Spanish people --- Ethnology --- History --- Sources. --- Culture --- Soto, Hernando de, --- De Soto, Ferdinando, --- De Soto, Hernando, --- Soto, Ferdinando de, --- Soto, Fernando de, --- Sotto, Hernando de, --- Souto, Fernando de, --- Southern States --- American South --- American Southeast --- Dixie (U.S. : Region) --- Former Confederate States --- South, The --- Southeast (U.S.) --- Southeast United States --- Southeastern States --- Southern United States --- United States, Southern --- Discovery and exploration --- Spanish
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How social and political power was wielded in order to build Moundville This work is a state-of-the-art, data-rich study of excavations undertaken at the Moundville site in west central Alabama, one of the largest and most complex of the mound sites of pre-contact North America. Despite the site's importance and sustained attention by researchers, until now it has lacked a comprehensive analysis of its modern excavations. Richly documented by maps, artifact photo-graphs, profiles of strata, and inventories of materials found, the present work explores one expression
Excavations (Archaeology) --- Mounds --- Architecture --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Social archaeology --- Indians of North America --- Mississippian culture --- History. --- Antiquities. --- Moundville (Ala.) --- Moundville Archaeological Park (Moundville, Ala.)
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