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- Title
COMPOUND PROBLEMS IN MISSISSIPPIAN ARCHAEOLOGY.
- Authors
ALT, SUSAN M.; PAUKETAT, TIMOTHY R.
- Abstract
When walls are built that inhibit access to certain spaces, resources, or people within settlements, the resulting compartmentalization alters in various ways communities, polities, or regions. During the Mississippian period (A.D. 1050-1600) in the eastern United States, compound walls were relatively rare, and are known primarily to surround pyramids. Other compound walls are known from the East St. Louis and Cahokia sites in the American Bottom and, compared to other pre-Columbian and historic examples, suggest greater concerns for the defense of specific religious and elite-residential buildings during the twelfth century A.D. The long-term historical implications of the walling off of such spaces and facilities may have included the factionalization of political interests.
- Subjects
AMERICAN Bottom (Ill.); CAHOKIA Mounds State Historic Park (Ill.); ILLINOIS; WALLS; ARCHAEOLOGY
- Publication
Illinois Archaeology: Journal of the Illinois Archaeology Survey, 2010, Vol 22, Issue 2, p379
- ISSN
1050-8244
- Publication type
Article