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Etowah: The Political History of a Chiefdom Capital 0th Edition

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A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication

Detailed reconstruction of the waxing and waning of political fortunes among the chiefly elites at an important center of the prehistoric world

At the time the first Europeans arrived in the New World, thousands of earthen platform mounds dotted the landscape of eastern North America. Only a few of the mound sites have survived the ravages of time and the devastation of pilferers; one of these valuable monuments is Etowah, located near Cartersville in northern Georgia. Over a period of more than 100 years, excavations of the site’s six mounds, and in particular Mound C, have yielded a wealth of artifacts, including marble statues, copper embossed plates, ceremonial items, and personal adornments. These objects indicate an extensive trading network between Mississippian centers and confirm contact with Spanish conquistadores near Etowah in the mid-1500s.

Adam King has analyzed the architecture and artifacts of Etowah and deduced its vital role in the prehistory of the area. He advances a plausible historical sequence and a model for the ancient town's complex political structure. The chiefdom society relied upon institutional social ranking, permanent political offices, religious ideology, a redistribution of goods and services, and the willing support of the constituent population. King reveals strategies used by the paramount chiefs to maintain their sources of power and to control changes in the social organization. Elite alliances did not necessarily involve the extreme asymmetry of political domination and tribute extraction. King's use of ceramic assemblages recovered from Etowah to determine the occupation history and the construction sequence of public facilities (mounds and plazas) at the center is significant.

This fresh interpretation of the Etowah site places it in a contemporary social and political context with other Mississippian cultures. It is a one-volume sourcebook for the Etowah polity and its neighbors and will, therefore, command an eager audience of scholars and generalists.

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“This is a book of great importance for archaeologists interested in the Mississippian societies of the southeastern United States and for archaeologists elsewhere who are studying the ways in which political fortunes proceed in chiefly societies.”
—John F. Scarry, North Carolina State University

“King’s synthesis treats not just the Etowah site but nine others in the Etowah Valley as well. This gives his work a broader and more realistic context for his exploration of political, economic, and social change.”
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Adam King is an archaeologist with the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program in Columbia, South Carolina.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University Alabama Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 4, 2002
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 0
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0817312242
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0817312244
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 0.7 x 9.25 inches
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  • Gene Bowker
    4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting to learn about the Cultures in Georgia
    Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2019
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    Written well so that even no scholars could understand. Got a little dry at points but it is a scholarly work not pop-fiction. Learned about the local Georgia cultures and motivated me to visit nearby sites.
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    1.0 out of 5 stars I love anthropology, but this book put me to sleep
    Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2016
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    I love anthropology, but this book put me to sleep. It reads like a student's senior seminar paper. The author seems uncomfortable stating his own ideas, and thus must cite, quote and summarize everyone else.
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  • walker
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    Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2005
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    A very interesting and informative book on such an intriguing subject. It really puts this site in a more understandable light which is hard to do when you are dealing with prehistory.
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  • Richard L. Thornton
    4.0 out of 5 stars This book is a step forward in unraveling the mysteries of Etowah Mounds
    Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2018
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    Dr. Adam King DID do his dissertation research at Etowah Mounds. I lived in walking distance from the archaeological zone and had several chats with him as he worked. He needs to focus more on his own research, which is very solid, and stop quoting the myths that his professors taught him. A lot of malarkey was dreamed up just before he went to college. The new generation of academicians had the chief archaeologists on the 1950s era dig, Arthur Kelly and Lewis Larson, saying things that they never said. I have their report, which was personally given to me by Arthur Kelly, after the two famous archaeologists gave our Georgia Tech Pre-Columbian architecture class a grad tour of the site. Adam replicated these 1980s myths without consulting the actual report. For example, the famous Etowah marble statues were found at center-base of Mound C inside a log chamber, which was inside a round temple. Adam replicated the myth that they were found near the surface of a ramp leasing to the mound and were "buried hurriedly". Not at all . . . over the centuries the earthen mound collapsed the burial chamber. He lists three occupation periods. Robert Wauchope found a Swift Creek and Woodstock Village under the Mississippian occupation. Arthur Kelly found a fourth Apalachicola-Creek occupation, whose round structures are still visible with satellite imagery. Late 20th century professors "erased" this fourth occupation because they were on the payroll of developers and the Eastern Band of Cherokees, who tried for over 20 years to build a Cherokee gambling casino near the Etowah Mounds. I guess the big difference in perspective is that I knew Dr. Kelly personally. It was his endorsement that got me the fellowship in Mexico, which several decades later resulted in the "Mayas In Georgia" controversy and me being labeled by his profession as an "ignorant peon" . . . well maybe, but I am Creek ignorant peon. LOL By the way, the real name of Etowah Mounds was Etula. It is an Itza Maya word, which means "Principal town" or "capital." That fact would have greatly changed several sections of Adam's book.
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