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Mississippian culture. --- Indians of North America --- Culture du Mississippi --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Mississippi River Valley --- Southern States --- Mississippi, Vallée du --- Etats-Unis (Sud)
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Mississippian culture. --- Mississippian art. --- Indian cosmology. --- Rock painting --- Picture-writing --- Culture du Mississippi --- Art mississippien --- Cosmologie indienne d'Amérique --- Peintures rupestres --- Ecriture pictographique --- Picture Cave (Mo.) --- Picture Cave (Missouri)
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The prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States shared a complex set of symbols and motifs that constituted one of the greatest artistic traditions of the pre-Columbian Americas. Traditionally known as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, these artifacts of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood were the subject of the groundbreaking 2007 book Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms: Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography, which presented a major reconstruction of the rituals, cosmology, ideology, and political structures of the Mississippian peoples. Visualizing the Sacred advances the study of Mississippian iconography by delving into the regional variations within what is now known as the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS). Bringing archaeological, ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and iconographic perspectives to the analysis of Mississippian art, contributors from several disciplines discuss variations in symbols and motifs among major sites and regions across a wide span of time and also consider what visual symbols reveal about elite status in diverse political environments. These findings represent the first formal identification of style regions within the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere and call for a new understanding of the MIIS as a network of localized, yet interrelated religious systems that experienced both continuity and change over time.
Mississippian culture. --- Mississippian art --- Indian cosmology --- Indians of North America --- Visions --- Regionalism --- Culture du Mississippi --- Art mississippien --- Cosmologie indienne d'Amérique --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Régionalisme --- Religion --- History --- Histoire --- Mississippi River Valley --- Middle West --- Southern States --- East (U.S.) --- Mississippi, Vallée du --- Midwest (Etats-Unis) --- Etats-Unis (Sud) --- Etats-Unis (Est) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Mississippian art. --- Religion.
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Mississippian culture. --- Mississippian art --- Indian cosmology --- Indians of North America --- Visions --- Regionalism --- Culture du Mississippi --- Art mississippien --- Cosmologie indienne d'Amérique --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Visions --- Régionalisme --- Religion --- History --- History --- Religion --- Histoire --- Histoire --- Mississippi River Valley --- Middle West --- Southern States --- East (U.S.) --- Mississippi, Vallée du --- Midwest (Etats-Unis) --- Etats-Unis (Sud) --- Etats-Unis (Est) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Antiquités --- Antiquités --- Antiquités
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This book sweeps away the last vestiges of social-evolutionary explanations of 'chiefdoms' by rethinking the history of Pre-Columbian Southeast peoples and comparing them to ancient peoples in the Southwest, Mexico, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia.
Mississippian culture --- Indians of North America --- Chiefdoms --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Political anthropology --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Temple Mound culture --- Mound-builders --- Politics and government. --- History. --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Antiquities --- East (U.S.) --- Eastern States (U.S.) --- Eastern United States --- United States, Eastern --- Antiquities. --- Chefferie (Anthropologie) --- Chiefdoms. --- Culture du Mississippi --- Häuptling --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Mississippi-Kultur. --- Mississippian culture. --- Politische Organisation --- Sozialstruktur --- Histoire --- History --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- East United States. --- États-Unis (Est) --- Antiquités.
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"Reconstructing Tascalusa's Chiefdom is an archaeological study of political collapse in the Alabama River Valley following the Hernando de Soto expedition. To explain the cultural and political disruptions caused by Hernando de Soto's exploration deep into North America, Amanda L. Regnier presents an analysis of ceramics and a novel theory of cultural exchange, which argues that culture consists of a series of interconnected models governing proper behavior that are shared across the belief systems of communities and individuals. An approach not often applied to archaeological research, ceramic study serves as a test of whether historic cognitive models can be extracted from ceramic data via cluster and correspondence analysis. In addition, the summary of Late Mississippian sites includes a chronology of the Alabama River from approximately AD 900 to 1600, which previously has only existed in manuscript form, and a summary of excavations at major Late Mississippian sites along the Alabama River. The results of the study demonstrate that the Alabama River Valley was settled by populations migrating from three different geographic regions during the late fifteenth century. The mixture of ceramic models associated with all three traditions at Late Mississippian sites suggests that these newly founded towns had a distinct mix of ethnically and linguistically diverse populations. Based on the archaeological record, the polity controlled by Tascalusa appears to have been both multiethnic and newly formed. Perhaps most significantly, Tascalusa's chiefdom appears to be a pre-contact example of a coalescent society that emerged after populations migrated into a new region from the deteriorating Mississippian chiefdoms in their homelands"--
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Mississippian pottery --- Social exchange --- Indians of North America --- Land settlement patterns --- Chiefdoms --- Mississippian culture --- Patterns, Land settlement --- Settlement patterns --- Human geography --- Land settlement --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Political anthropology --- Temple Mound culture --- Mound-builders --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Interpersonal relations --- Social interaction --- Pottery, Mississippian --- Pottery, American --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Antiquities --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Soto, Hernando de, --- Tuskaloosa, --- Tascaluca, --- Tascalusa, --- Tascaluza, --- Tuscaloosa, --- Tuscalusa, --- Tuskalusa, --- De Soto, Ferdinando, --- De Soto, Hernando, --- Soto, Ferdinando de, --- Soto, Fernando de, --- Sotto, Hernando de, --- Souto, Fernando de, --- Influence. --- Alabama River Region (Ala.) --- Antiquities. --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Culture du Mississippi --- Chefferie (Anthropologie) --- Colonisation intérieure --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Echange social --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Histoire --- Politique et gouvernement --- Alabama River (Ala.) --- Alabama (Rivière) --- Antiquités
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