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Title:

Mississippian towns and sacred spaces : searching for an architectural grammar / edited by R. Barry Lewis and Charles Stout.

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

xiv, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mississippian culture.
Missippian architecture.
Indians of North America--Urban residence--Southern States.
Indians of North America--Urban residence--Mississippi River Valley.
Sacred space--Southern States.
Sacred space--Mississippi River Valley.
Southern States--Antiquities.
Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities.

Other Authors:

Lewis, R. Barry.
Stout, Charles B.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-291) and index.

Contents:

The design of Mississippian towns / R. Barry Lewis, Charles Stout, and Cameron B. Wesson -- Town structure at the edge of the Mississippian world / Claudine Payne and John F. Scarry -- The nature of Mississippian towns in Georgia: the King site example / David J. Hally and Hypatia Kelly -- Mississippian towns in the eastern Tennessee valley / Gerald F. Schroedl -- Mississippian sacred landscapes: the view from Alabama / Cameron B. Wesson -- Mississippi period mound groups and communities in the lower Mississippi valley / Tristram R. Kidder -- Mississippian towns in Kentucky / Charles Stout and R. Barry Lewis -- Towns along the lower Ohio / Jon Muller -- The Mississippian town plan and cultural landscape of Cahokia, Illinois / Scott J. Demel and Robert L. Hall -- The town as metaphor / R. Barry Lewis and Charles Stout.

ISBN:

9780817309473
0817309470

OCLC:

(OCoLC)39189828

LCCN:

98019772

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)