essay
Chiefly compounds
mississippian communities and households • Tuscaloosa • Published In 1995 • Pages: 124-134
By: Williams, Mark.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this document Mark Williams challenges current ways of thinking, first about Lamar period households and mound sites in the Oconee valley of the north Georgia Piedmont, then about settlement systems throughout the Southeast. By pointing out inconsistencies of terminology and the unrealistic nature of both early, simplistic settlement models and more recent, overly commplicated versions, he attempts to introduce a note of realism. Through analogy with African chiefly compounds, Williams proposes a model of Lamar mound sites that rejects the trend of defining all regional settlement systems in the eastern Woodlands as having many levels consisting of increasing complex sites (32: Rogers, p. 5).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- History
- Settlement patterns
- Household
- Community heads
- 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)
- southeastern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Mark Williams
- For bibliographical references see document 31:[Rogers and Smith]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94044049
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mississippian culture