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Life in a Mississippian Warscape: Common Field, Cahokia, and the Effects of Warfare

Life in a Mississippian Warscape: Common Field, Cahokia, and the Effects of Warfare

Buchanan, Meghan E.

Hardcover

Series: Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspe

Native American HistoryAnthropologyArchaeology

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ISBN10: 0817321381
ISBN13: 9780817321383
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: Oct 4 2022
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.13
Language: English

Analyzes Mississippian daily life at Cahokia's environs during wartime

In Life in a Mississippian Warscape: Common Field, Cahokia, and the Effects of Warfare Meghan E. Buchanan posits that to understand the big histories of warfare, political fragmentation, and resilience in the past archaeologists must also analyze and interpret the microscale actions of the past. These are the daily activities of people before, during, and after historical events. Within warscapes, battles take place in peoples' front yards, family members die, and the impacts of violence in near and distant places are experienced on a daily basis. This book explores the microscale of daily lives of people living at Common Field, a large, palisaded mound center, during the period of Cahokia's abandonment and the spread of violence and warfare throughout the Southeast.

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