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Mississippian towns and sacred spaces : searching for an architectural grammar
- Title
- Mississippian towns and sacred spaces : searching for an architectural grammar / edited by R. Barry Lewis and Charles Stout.
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | E99.M6815 M575 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 304 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Architecture is the most visible physical manifestation of human culture. The built environment envelops our lives and projects our distinctive regional and ethnic identities to the world around us. Archaeology and architecture find common theoretical ground in their perspectives on the homes, spaces, and communities that people create for themselves. In this volume, prominent archaeologists examine the architectural design spaces of Mississippian towns and mound centers of the eastern United States. The diverse Mississippian societies, which existed between A.D. 900 and 1700, created some of the largest and most complex Native American archaeological sites in the United States. The dominant architectural feature shared by these communities was one or more large plazas, each of which was often flanked by buildings set on platform mounds.
- Subjects
- North America
- Mississippi, Vallée du > Antiquités
- États-Unis (Sud) > Antiquités
- Mississippi River Valley > Antiquities
- Southern States > Antiquities
- Iwi taketake
- Kultstätte
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Stadt
- Mississippikultur
- Mississippian culture
- Mississippian architecture
- Antiquities
- Temple Mound period
- Lieux sacrés > Mississippi, Vallée du
- Lieux sacrés > États-Unis (Sud)
- Indiens d'Amérique > Amérique du Nord > Habitat urbain > Mississippi, Vallée du
- Indiens d'Amérique > Amérique du Nord > Habitat urbain > États-Unis (Sud)
- Culture du Mississippi
- Sacred space > Mississippi River Valley
- Sacred space > Southern States
- Urban Indians > North America
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-291) and index.
- Contents
- The design of Mississippian towns / R. Barry Lewis, Charles Stout, and Cameron B. Wesson -- Town structure at the edge of the Mississippian world / Claudine Payne and John F. Scarry -- The nature of Mississippian towns in Georgia: the King site example / David J. Hally and Hypatia Kelly -- Mississippian towns in the eastern Tennessee valley / Gerald F. Schroedl -- Mississippian sacred landscapes: the view from Alabama / Cameron B. Wesson -- Mississippi period mound groups and communities in the lower Mississippi valley / Tristram R. Kidder -- Mississippian towns in Kentucky / Charles Stout and R. Barry Lewis -- Towns along the lower Ohio / Jon Muller -- The Mississippian town plan and cultural landscape of Cahokia, Illinois / Scott J. Demel and Robert L. Hall -- The town as metaphor / R. Barry Lewis and Charles Stout.
- ISBN
- 0817309470
- 9780817309473
- LCCN
- 98019772
- OCLC
- ocm39189828
- SCSB-766356
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library