essay
Foreword
archaeology of the moundville chiefdom • Washington, Dc • Published 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