Political structure and change in the prehistoric southeastern United States / edited by John F. Scarry. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, �1996. - 1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages) : illustrations, maps. - The Ripley P. Bullen series . - Ripley P. Bullen series. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-311) and index.

Foreword / Looking for and at Mississippian Political Change / The Nature of Mississippian Societies / Development and Dissolution of a Mississippian Society in the American Bottom, Illinois / Markers of Social Integration : The Development of Centralized Authority in the Spiro Region / Control Over Goods and the Political Stability of the Moundville Chiefdom / Platform-Mound Construction and the Instability of Mississippian Chiefdoms / Mississippian Political Dynamics in the Oconee Valley, Georgia / Chiefly Cycling and Large-Scale Abandonments as Viewed from the Savannah River Basin / Stability and Change in the Apalachee Chiefdom / Fluctuations between Simple and Complex Chiefdoms : Cycling in the Late Prehistoric Southeast / Jerald T. Milanich -- John F. Scarry -- John F. Scarry -- George R. Milner -- J. Daniel Rogers -- Paul D. Welch -- David J. Hally -- Mark Williams and Gary Shapiro -- David G. Anderson -- John F. Scarry -- David G. Anderson. Part I. Introduction -- Part II. Structure and Change in Mississippian Societies -- Part III. Chiefly Politics and the Mississippian Societies --


English.

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