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Author:   A. Martin Byers
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.894kg
ISBN:  

9781498570626

ISBN 10:   1498570623
Pages:   472
Publication Date:   02 February 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Continuist and Discontinuist Histories Chapter 1: The Incomplete Debunking of the Mound Builder Mythology Chapter 2: Unitary Polities and Dual Heterarchies: Apprehending Social Systems from Alternative Perspectives Chapter 3: The Dual Complementary Heterarchical Community/Cult Sodality Heterarchy Model Chapter 4: The Symbolic Pragmatic Model of Style and the Custodial Franchising of Sacred Bundles Chapter 5: The World Renewal Mortuary Model: The Postmortem Human Sacrificial Chaine Operatoire Mortuary Trajectory Chapter 6: Settlement, Subsistence, and Ceremonialism: The Deontic Ecology of the Prehistoric Eastern Woodlands Chapter 7: The Dissolution of a Transregional Second-Order Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere Chapter 8: Community Polities or Dual Heterarchies: Extreme Displaced Mortuary Depositions and Demonstrating the Best Fit Truth Chapter 9: The Emergence of the Complementary Heterarchical Chiefdom Community: Singular-Selective Candidature Practice Chapter 10: The Emergence of Vacant Quarters and the Late Prehistoric Period Post-Late Prehistoric Period Transition Chapter 11: The Lower Chattahoochee River Valley: A Primary Southeastern Mississippian Ceremonial Sphere Chapter 12: The Late Prehistoric Period Savannah River Valley: A First-Order Southern Appalachian Complicated-Stamped Ceremonial Sphere Chapter 13: The Etowah Site of the Etowah River Valley Late Prehistoric Period: Paramount Chiefdom Polity or Dispersed Third-Order Cult Sodality Heterarchy? Chapter 14: The Formation and Transformation of Mound C of the Etowah Site Conclusion: The Real Mound Builder Social World

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Byers is the most innovative and audacious scholar of eastern North American prehistory, and in this volume, he proposes the archaeological equivalent of a Grand Unified Theory of the Hopewellian and Mississippian ceremonial spheres. It's a radical idea that may open the door to a new understanding of these ancient cultures. -- Bradley T. Lepper, Ohio History Connection

Byers is the most innovative and audacious scholar of eastern North American prehistory, and in this volume, he proposes the archaeological equivalent of a Grand Unified Theory of the Hopewellian and Mississippian ceremonial spheres. It's a radical idea that may open the door to a new understanding of these ancient cultures.--Bradley T. Lepper, Ohio History Connection Martin Byers's new book is an excellent compilation of his previous work with new, refined interpretations that will be of great interest to a diverse audience for many years to come. His explanations for the development of Hopewell and Mississippian societies are changing the way archaeologist investigate these ancient North American cultures.--Brian G. Redmond, Cleveland Museum of Natural History

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A. Martin Byers was CEGEP professor at Vanier College and research associate at McGill University.

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