Chiefdoms and other archaeological delusions
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Word Count
64,250 words, Guess
Page Count
257 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL22756004M
- ISBN-139780759108295
- OCLC Control Number77011582
- Library of Congress Control Number2006101558
- LibraryThing3247657
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- Goodreads2516070
Classifications
- LCCE
Description
"In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples, often by trying to demonstrate from material remains that a certain culture was at a certain stage in its development. In lively, engaging, and informed prose, Timothy Pauketat debunks much of this social-evolutionary theorizing about human development as he ponders the evidence of "chiefdoms" left behind by the Mississippian culture of the American southern heartland. This book challenges all students of history and prehistory to examine the actual evidence that archaeology has made available and to do so with an open mind."--Jacket.
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