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Some perspectives on Cahokia and the northern Mississippian expansion
cahokia and the hinterlands : middle mississipian cultures of the midwest • Urbana • Published In 1991 • Pages: 221-236
By: Emerson, Thomas E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper focuses on an examination of the relationship between the late prehistoric peoples of Cahokia and the Upper Mississippi River Valley. Emerson attempts to synthesize ca. 1991 information on Cahokia and American Bottom Mississippian cultural history and to relate it to the processes that led to the northern Mississippian expansion.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Internal migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Territorial hierarchy
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- 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
- 1200 BP - 500 BP (800 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)
- Mississippi River Valley, Illinois, United states
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thomas E. Emerson
- '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