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Circular Villages of the Monongahela Tradition
Bernard K. Means
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Description for Circular Villages of the Monongahela Tradition
Paperback. Between AD 1000 and 1635, the inhabitants of southwestern Pennsylvania and portions of adjacent states - known as the Monongahela Culture or Tradition - began to reside in ring-shaped village settlements. These circular settlements consisted of dwellings around a central plaza. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of circular village forms. Num Pages: 240 pages, 39 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 363.
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of circular village forms. Between A.D. 1000 and 1635, the inhabitants of southwestern Pennsylvania and portions of adjacent states - known to archaeologists as the Monongahela Culture or Tradition - began to regularly reside in ring-shaped village settlements. These circular settlements consisted of dwellings around a central plaza. A cross-cultural and cross-temporal review of archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic cases demonstrates that this settlement form appeared repeatedly and independently worldwide, including throughout portions of the Eastern Woodlands, among the Plains Indians, and in Central and South America. Specific archaeological cases are drawn from Somerset County, ... Read more
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of circular village forms. Between A.D. 1000 and 1635, the inhabitants of southwestern Pennsylvania and portions of adjacent states - known to archaeologists as the Monongahela Culture or Tradition - began to regularly reside in ring-shaped village settlements. These circular settlements consisted of dwellings around a central plaza. A cross-cultural and cross-temporal review of archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic cases demonstrates that this settlement form appeared repeatedly and independently worldwide, including throughout portions of the Eastern Woodlands, among the Plains Indians, and in Central and South America. Specific archaeological cases are drawn from Somerset County, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817354381
SKU
V9780817354381
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About Bernard K. Means
Bernard K. Means is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington and Lee University.
Reviews for Circular Villages of the Monongahela Tradition
A fine contribution to Monongahela settlement in particular, and methods for analyzing circular village forms in general. Its main contribution is in developing models of settlement and showing the diversity of Monongahela village organizations. - Marvin T. Smith, author of Coosa: The Rise and Fall of a Southeastern Mississippian Chiefdom ""Innovative and unique, this work could become a classic in ... Read more