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This ambitious book provides a theoretical explanation of how prehistoric Cahokia became a stratified society, and ultimately the pinnacle of Native American cultural achievement north of Mexico. Considering Cahokia in terms of class struggle, Pauketat claims that the political consolidation in this region of the Mississippi Valley happened quite suddenly, around A.D. 1000, after which the lords of Cahokia innovated strategies to preserve their power and ultimately emerged as divine chiefs. The new ideas and new data in this volume will invigorate the debate surrounding one of the most important developments in North American prehistory.
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The Ascent of Chiefs : Cahokia and Mississippian Politics in Native North America
author
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Pauketat, Timothy R.
publisher
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University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0817307281
print isbn13
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9780817307288
ebook isbn13
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9780585193540
language
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English
subject
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.) , Mississippian culture, Chiefdoms.
publication date
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1994
lcc
:
E78.I3P38 1994eb
ddc
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977.3/89
subject
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Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.) , Mississippian culture, Chiefdoms.
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The Ascent of Chiefs
Cahokia and Mississippian Politics in Native North America
Timothy R. Pauketat
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS Tuscaloosa & London
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Copyright 1994 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data
Pauketat, Timothy R.
The ascent of chiefs: Cahokia and Mississippian politics in Native North America / Timothy R. Pauketat. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8173-0728-1 (alk. paper) 1. Cahokia Site (East Saint Louis, Ill.) 2. Mississippian cul ture. 3. Chiefdoms. I. Title. E78.I3P38 1994 977.3'89dc20 93-42734
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available
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For Stephanie, Regena, and Janet
Page vii
Contents
Figures
ix
Tables
xiii
Preface
xv
1. Introduction: A Mississippian Leviathan
1
2. Chiefdoms in Theory and Practice
8
3. The Sociohistorical Context of the American Bottom Region
40
4. Central and Rural Mississippian Patterns
66
5. Diachronic Community and Architectural Evidence
108
6. Diachronic Artifactual Evidence
141
7. The Generation of the Cahokian Leviathan
168
Bibliography
191
Index
231
Page ix
Figures
1.1. A Portion of the Northern American Bottom Showing Mound Distribution
4
2.1. The Development of Incipient Stratification
22
2.2. The Range of Political Stances of Actors
26
2.3. Possible Trajectories of Regional Political Consolidation
26
2.4. The Transformation of Local Chiefly Polities into a Regionally Centralized Polity
28
3.1. The Physiographic Regions of the North American Midcontinent
44
3.2. American Bottom Region Physiography
45
3.3. The Late-Prehistoric American Bottom Chronology
49
3.4. Possible Emergent Mississippian Centers in the American Bottom Region
54
3.5. The Distribution of Late Bluff and Pulcher Tradition Wares
56
3.6. Monks Mound Red Seed Jars
58
4.1. The St. Louis Mound Group
68
4.2. The Northern Bottom Expanse Mississippian Centers or Other Sites with Mounds
69
4.3. Plan of the Cahokia Site and Immediate Vicinity
72
4.4. The Ratio of Maize Kernels to Cob Fragments at Selected Sites
75
4.5. Mississippian Centers or Possible Centers in the American Bottom Region
77
4.6. A Composite Profile of the Kunnemann Mound, Cahokia
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