The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America
Jennifer Birch and Victor D. Thompson
Abstract
The emergence of village-communities profoundly transformed social organization in every part of the world where such societies developed. Contributors to The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America employ archaeological and historical evidence to explore the development of villages among eastern North American indigenous societies of the deep and recent past. Rich data sets from archaeology and contemporary social theory are employed to document the physical attributes of villages, the structural organization and aggregation of such entities, what it means to be a villager, cosmologi ... More
The emergence of village-communities profoundly transformed social organization in every part of the world where such societies developed. Contributors to The Archaeology of Villages in Eastern North America employ archaeological and historical evidence to explore the development of villages among eastern North American indigenous societies of the deep and recent past. Rich data sets from archaeology and contemporary social theory are employed to document the physical attributes of villages, the structural organization and aggregation of such entities, what it means to be a villager, cosmological and ritual systems, and how villages were entangled with one another in regional networks. The result is a volume which highlights the similarities and differences in the historical trajectories of village formation and development in eastern North America, as well as the larger processes by which villages have the power to affect large-scale social transformations.
Keywords:
Archaeology,
Eastern North America,
Indigenous societies,
aggregation,
social organization,
social theory
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781683400462 |
Published to Florida Scholarship Online: May 2019 |
DOI:10.5744/florida/9781683400462.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Jennifer Birch, editor
University of Georgia
Victor D. Thompson, editor
University of Georgia
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