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INVESTIGATION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL POLITICAL STRUCTURE IN SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES

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1974
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If the state is that complex of institutions which integrates a culture on a non-kinship basis so as to maintain some order of class stratification, can prehistoric examples of the state, particularly in its nascent stages, be archaeologically demonstrated? Using the historic Indian cultures of the Natchez of Mississippi and the Timucua of northeast Florida as examples of such nascent states, archaeological implications are drawn from them. The hypothesis that prehistoric cultures with ceremonial centers at the Etowah and Kolomoki sites; both in Georgia, were also examples of nascent states is then tested against these implications, and found to meet them. It is very probable, then, that Etowah and Kolomoki were prehistoric states, and desirable that the attempt be made to further elucidate their particulars.
Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL POLITICAL STRUCTURE IN SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES.
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Name(s): OLAH, JOHN ALBERT.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Sears, William H., Thesis advisor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Anthropology
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1974
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 78 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: If the state is that complex of institutions which integrates a culture on a non-kinship basis so as to maintain some order of class stratification, can prehistoric examples of the state, particularly in its nascent stages, be archaeologically demonstrated? Using the historic Indian cultures of the Natchez of Mississippi and the Timucua of northeast Florida as examples of such nascent states, archaeological implications are drawn from them. The hypothesis that prehistoric cultures with ceremonial centers at the Etowah and Kolomoki sites; both in Georgia, were also examples of nascent states is then tested against these implications, and found to meet them. It is very probable, then, that Etowah and Kolomoki were prehistoric states, and desirable that the attempt be made to further elucidate their particulars.
Identifier: 13633 (digitool), FADT13633 (IID), fau:10472 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1974.
Subject(s): Indians of North America--Southern States
Natchez Indians
Timucua Indians
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