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Book SynopsisIn the United States, Cahokia has been the focus of intense archaeological work to explain its mysteries. As one of the foremost experts on Cahokia, Susan M. Alt addresses long-standing considerations of eastern Woodlands archaeology - the beginnings, character, and ending of Mississippian culture (AD 1050-1600) - from a novel theoretical and empirical vantage point.
Trade ReviewCahokia's Complexities engages with interesting, broadly relevant anthropological theory and grounds this engagement in a detailed material case study."" - Meghan C. L. Howey, author of
Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600 and associate editor of the
Journal of Archaeological Anthropology""Alt outlines interesting ideas about the role of hybridity and diversity in the development of Cahokia, one of the most complex polities and cultural landscapes of Native North America.
Cahokia’s Complexities is an important book about current archaeological knowledge of the Cahokian cultural landscape, and in shaping what we will learn from new archaeological finds in the years to come in the American Bottom and in the Cahokian diaspora, and it is an important contribution to broader scholarly conversations in archaeology about complexity."" - Christopher B. Rodning, author of
Center Places and Cherokee Towns: Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians
