Lamar Archaeology: Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Deep South

by Mark Williams (Editor), Gary Shapiro (Editor), Marvin T. Smith (Contributor)

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication


Lamar Archaeology provides a comprehensive and detailed review of our knowledge of the late prehistoric Indian societies in the Southern Appalachian area and its peripheries. These Lamar societies were chiefdom-level groups who built most of the mounds in this large region and were ancestors of later tribes, including the Creeks and Cherokees. This book begins with a history of the last 50 years of archaeological and historical research and brings together for the first time all the available data on this early culture. It also provides an invaluable model for books about Southeastern Indian societies by combining purely descriptive information with innovative analyses, advancing our knowledge of the past while remaining firmly grounded in the archaeological evidence as fact.


Contributors

Frankie Snow, Chad O. Braley, James B. Langford Jr., Marvin T. Smith, Daniel T. Elliott, Richard R. Polhemus, C. Roger Nance, Gary Shapiro, Mark Williams, John F. Scarry, David G. Anderson, andCharles M. Hudson

Genres: Archaeology, History

272 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 1990

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. For children's author (including adaptations of Sherlock Holmes stories) see Mark Williams and for clinical psychology professor writing on mindfulness, depression, etc. see Mark Williams