{"product_id":"cahokias-complexities-9780817319762","title":"Cahokias Complexities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCahokia's Complexities \u003c\/i\u003eengages with interesting, broadly relevant anthropological theory and grounds this engagement in a detailed material case study.\"\" - Meghan C. L. Howey, author of \u003ci\u003eMound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600 \u003c\/i\u003eand associate editor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Archaeological Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"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. \u003ci\u003eCahokia’s Complexities\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eCenter Places and Cherokee Towns: Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038569824599,"sku":"9780817319762","price":40.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780817319762.jpg?v=1750940712","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cahokias-complexities-9780817319762","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}