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Contents:
Foreword: Crafting community and identity in the Eastern Woodlands / David G. Anderson -- 1. Power of villages / Victor D. Thompson and Jennifer Birch -- 2. Collective action and village life during the late archaic on the Georgia coast / Victor D. Thompson -- 3. Powers of place in the predestined Middle Woodland village / Neill Wallis -- 4. Size matters: Kolomoki (9ER1) and the power of the hypertrophic village / Shaun E. West, Thomas J. Pluckhahn, and Martin Menz -- 5. When villages do not form: a case study from the Piedmont Village tradition-Mississippian borderlands, AD 1200-1600 / Eric E. Jones -- 6. Initial northern Iroquoian coalescence / Jennifer Birch and Ronald F. Williamson -- 7. Path to the council house: the development of Mississippian communities in southeast Tennessee / Lynne E. Sullivan -- 8. Village remains the same: a Fort Ancient example / Robert A. Cook -- 9. Population aggregation and the emergence of circular villages in southwest Virginia / Richard W. Jeffries -- 10. Power of Powhatan towns: socializing manitou in the Algonquian Chesapeake / Martin D. Gallivan, Christopher J. Shephard, and Jessica A. Jenkins -- 11. From nucleated villages to dispersed networks: transformations in Seneca Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) community structure, circa AD 1669-1779 / Kurt A. Jordan -- 12. It took a Childe to raze the village / Charles R. Cobb
Summary:
This volume highlights the similarities and differences in the historical trajectories of village formation and development in eastern North America, as well as the larger processes by which villages have the power to affect large-scale social transformations. Contributors to this volume employ archaeological and historical evidence to explore the development of villages among eastern North American societies of the deep and recent past
