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Power and place: Agency, ecology, and history in the American Bottom, Illinois

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

Sissel Schroeder
Sissel Schroeder*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, 5240 Social Science Building, 1180 Observatory Dr Madison, WI 53706, USA (Email: sschroeder2@wisc.edu)
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Abstract

Is ecology or agency the principal imperative of the formation of complex societies? Using new survey data, the author shows how both interest in the development of the riverside settlement area of the American Bottom and how the different modern histories of the northern (industrial) and the southern (agricultural) American Bottom, have affected the survival of evidence and how this in turn has favoured a different emphasis in interpretation for each.

Keywords

MississippianCahokiachiefdomssettlement patternshistorical ecology
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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 78 , Issue 302 , December 2004 , pp. 812 - 827
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2004

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