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New Histories of Village Life at Crystal River

By: Thomas J. Pluckhahn,Victor D. Thompson

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New Histories of Village Life at Crystal River

By: Thomas J. Pluckhahn,Victor D. Thompson

This volume explores how native peoples of the Southeastern United States cooperated to form large and permanent early villages, using the site of Crystal River on Florida's Gulf Coast as a case study. Crystal River was once among the most celebrated sites of the Woodland period (ca. 1000 B.C. to A.D. 1000), consisting of ten mounds and large numbers of diverse artifacts from the Hopewell culture. But a lack of research using contemporary methods at this site and nearby Roberts Island limited a full understanding of what these sites could tell scholars. Thomas Pluckhahn and Victor Thompson reanalyze previous excavations and conduct new field investigations to tell the whole story of Crystal River from its beginnings as a ceremonial center, through its growth into a large village, to its decline at the turn of the first millennium while Roberts Island and other nearby areas thrived. Comparing this community to similar sites on the Gulf Coast and in other areas of the world, Pluckhahn and Thompson argue that Crystal River is an example of an "early village society." They illustrate that these early villages present important evidence in a larger debate regarding the role of competition versus cooperation in the development of human societies. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

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Kolomoki

Settlement, Ceremony, and Status in the Deep South, A.D. 350 to 750

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Kolomoki

Settlement, Ceremony, and Status in the Deep South, A.D. 350 to 750

By: Thomas J. Pluckhahn

The first comprehensive and systematic investigation of a Woodland period ceremonial center. Kolomoki, one of the most impressive archaeological sites in the southeastern United States, includes at least nine large earthen mounds in the lower Chattahoochee River valley of southwest Georgia. The largest, Mound A, rises approximately 20 meters above the terrace that borders it. From its flat-topped summit, a visitor can survey the string of smaller mounds that form an arc to the south and west. Archaeological research had previously placed Kolomoki within the Mississippian period (ca. a.d. 1000- ...

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University of Alabama Press

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0817350179

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Kolomoki

Settlement, Ceremony, and Status in the Deep South, A.D. 350 to 750

By: Thomas J. Pluckhahn

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Settlement, Ceremony, and Status in the Deep South, A.D. 350 to 750

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