Book
The Savannah River chiefdoms: political change in the late prehistoric Southeast
University of Alabama Press • Tuscaloosa • Published In 1994 • Pages:
By: Anderson, David G..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The emergence and collapse of complex chiefdoms amid a regional landscape of simple chiefdoms, or what Anderson refers to as 'cycling', is caused by a wide range of factors which are explored in this monograph as they apply to a number of Savannah River chiefdoms of the Mississippian tradition (1100 B.P.-500 B.P. or 900 A.D. -1500 A.D). Emphasis is placed on political changes taking place during this period as environmental, ethnographic, and archaeological contributing factors are examined in detail. Two appendices, provide early historic accounts of Mississippian centers in the Savannah River basin (Appendix A), and Mississippian cultural sequences in the Savannah River valley (Appendix B).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Historical reconstruction
- Ceramic technology
- Miscellaneous structures
- Visual arts
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- 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
- Book
- 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
- 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
- 1985-1990
- 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)
- Savannah River chiefdoms, southeastern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- David G. Anderson
- Originally presented as author's dissertation (doctoral--University of Michigan, 1990)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-446) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 93048393
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mississippian culture