essay

Foreword

archaeology of the moundville chiefdomWashington, DcPublished In 1998 • Pages: xi-xvii

By: Peebles, Christopher Spaulding.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article represents the foreword to the monograph entitled Archaeology of the Moundville chiefdom, edited by Vernon James Knight Jr. and Vincas P. Steponaitis. In it Peebles presents a brief review of some of the works of various archaeologists studying the Moundville site in Alabama from approximately the early twentieth century to the 1990s. Several of these studies appear as documents 21-30 in this file.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Reviews and critiques
Theoretical orientation in research and its results
Organization and analysis of results of research
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
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
not specified
Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Moundville, Alabama, United States
NotesAdditional notes
Christopher S. Peebles
For bibliographical references see document 21: [Knight and Steponaitis]
LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
98006875
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Mississippian culture