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Reconstructing Tascalusa's Chiefdom - Pottery Styles and the Social Composition of Towns in the Late Mississippian Alabama River Valley (Hardcover, 2nd)
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Reconstructing Tascalusa's Chiefdom - Pottery Styles and the Social Composition of Towns in the Late Mississippian Alabama River Valley (Hardcover, 2nd)
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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.
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