Description: Life in a Mississippian Warscape : Common Field, Cahokia, and the Effects of Warfare, Hardcover by Buchanan, Meghan E., ISBN 0817321381, ISBN-13 9780817321383, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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. Linking together ethnographic, historic, and archaeological sources, Buchanan discusses the evidence that the people of Common Field engaged in novel and hybrid practices in these dangerous times. At the microscale, they adopted new ceramic tempering techniques, produced large numbers of serving vessels decorated with warfare-related imagery, adapted their food practices, and erected a substantial palisade with specially prepared deposits. The overall picture that emerges at Common Field is of a people who engaged in risk-averse practices that minimized their exposure to outside of the palisade and attempted to seek intercession from otherworldly realms through public ceremonies involving warfare-related iconography.
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Book Title: Life in a Mississippian Warscape : Common Field, Cahokia, and the
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Life in a Mississippian Warscape : Common Field, Cahokia, and the Effects of Warfare
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Subject: Archaeology, Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States / General
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 0.9 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.1 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Author: Meghan E. Buchanan
Series: Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspectives Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover