James River Chiefdoms The Rise of Social Inequality in the Chesapeake |
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| Author:
| Gallivan, Martin D. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-280-37425-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2003 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $55.00 |
Book Description:
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James River Chiefdoms explores puzzling discrepancies between the ethnohistoric and archaeological records of the Powhatan and Monacan societies Jamestown colonists met in 1607. The colonists described the coastal Powhatans and the Monacans of the James River interior in terms that evoke the anthropological notion of a chiefdom, but the Chesapeake region s archaeological record lacks elements typically associated with complex polities."
James River Chiefdoms explores puzzling discrepancies between the ethnohistoric and archaeological records of the Powhatan and Monacan societies Jamestown colonists met in 1607. The colonists described the coastal Powhatans and the Monacans of the James River interior in terms that evoke the anthropological notion of a chiefdom, but the Chesapeake region s archaeological record lacks elements typically associated with complex polities."