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- Title
COMMUNALISM AMONG THE LATE PREHISTORIC/PROTOHISTORIC INTERMONTANE AND MONONGAHELA CULTURES.
- Authors
Fuerst, David N.
- Abstract
This paper provides a programmatic look at the concept of communalism and its prospective application to the Late Prehistoric/Protohistoric Intermontane and Monongahela cultures in the Central Appalachian mountains. Communalism is defined herein as a corporate political strategy for making instrumental power decisions ions about sharing and group-oriented matters. Several archaeological indicators of communal societies were presented to consider the effects of communalism among the Late Prehistoric/Protohistoric Intermontane and Monongahela cultures of the Central Appalachian mountains. This cursory comparison suggests that the people of both cultures basically lived in communal societies until their demise in the seventeenth century.
- Subjects
APPALACHIAN Region; GREAT Basin; MONONGAHELA River Valley (W. Va. &; Pa.); CULTURE; COMMUNALISM; PREHISTORIC anthropology; INTERMONTANE basins; PROTOHISTORY; ARCHAEOLOGY; ANCIENT civilization
- Publication
Archaeology of Eastern North America, 2005, Vol 33, p1
- ISSN
0360-1021
- Publication type
Article