essay
The Oliver site and Early Moundville I Phase economic organization
archaeology of the moundville chiefdom • Washington, Dc • Published In 1998 • Pages: 167-182
By: Michals, Lauren M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Little is known about the economic relationship between Early Mississippian Moundville Phase populations (A.D. 1050 - 1150). Various classes of material recovered from midden deposits at the Oliver site … , an early Moundville I phase farmstead, are used to examine the relationships between outlying farmsteads, single-mound centers, and the emerging regional center of Moundville. A comparison between the Oliver site materal and early Moundville I phase material from the Asphalt Plant mound …and Moundville shows a general lack of difference in the ceramic remains but suggests that differential access to nonlocal material may have been present by this time. As a comparison, materal from Moundville II phase deposits at Moundville is also included in the discussion and indicates that clear status-related differences in material remains are evident during this later phase (p. 167).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Fauna
- Post depositional processes in archaeological sites
- Ceramic technology
- Settlement patterns
- Status, role, and prestige
- Accumulation of wealth
- 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
- 950 BP - 850 BP (1050 A.D. - 1150 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- The Oliver Site, Early Moundville I Phase, Black Warrior River Valley, Alabama, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Lauren M. Michals
- For bibliographical references see document 21: [Knight and Steponaitis]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98006875
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mississippian culture