essay
Mississippian sociocultural adaptation
cahokia and the hinterlands : middle mississipian cultures of the midwest • Urbana • Published In 1991 • Pages: 297-310
By: Muller, Jon, Stephens, Jeanette E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
According to the authors Mississippian studies suffer from the use of concepts that are no longer consistent with redefined archaeological goals. The term 'Mississippian', for example, was originally used to refer to a ceramic complex but over the years it has come to be used by some scholars as a descriptive term for nearly all of the late prehistoric societies of the eastern Woodlands, while others have attempted to restrict the concept to only a few of these societies. This paper attempts to clarify the adaptive features that may be considered to be Mississippian and reassess the terminology applied to those societies of the late prehistoric period (P. 297).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Exchange and transfers
- Production and supply
- Status, role, and prestige
- Social relationships and groups
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mississippian
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1100 BP - 500 BP (900 A.D. - 1500 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jon Muller and Jeanette E. Stephens
- 'Published in cooperation with the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.' For bibliographical references see document 2: Emerson and Lewis
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90010759
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mississippian culture