Book
The Cahokia chiefdom: the archaeology of a Mississippian society
Smithsonian Institution Press • Washington • Published In 1998 • Pages: xvi, 216
By: Milner, George R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Cahokia has served as the focal point for all Mississippi-period research in the Upper Mississippi River Valley for several generation of regional archaeologists, yet it still remains one of the least-known archaeological manisfestation in the area. Based on information hidden in old and obscure sources, unpublished field notes, and museum collections, Milner attempts to reconstruct a picture of what life was like in the Mississippi Valley during this late prehistoric period. As far as possible the author arranges his topics from ecological settings, to households and communities, to the organization and function of the Cahokia-dominated Mississippian period society (p. xii). Much of the data in this document comes from the analysis of the archaeological data obtained from the previous excavations of the mounds (for which Cahokia is famous), surface finds, and numerous grave sites in the region
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Reviews and critiques
- Post depositional processes in archaeological sites
- Ceramic technology
- Miscellaneous structures
- Utensils
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Typologies and classifications
- 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
- Book
- 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
- 1100 BP - 500 BP (900 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)
- Cahokia chiefdom, Illinois, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- George R. Milner
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-212) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98014333
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mississippian culture