Title & Author:

Mississippian towns and sacred spaces : searching for an architectural grammar / edited by R. Barry Lewis and Charles Stout.

Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©1998.

Description:

xiv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-291) and index.
The design of Mississippian towns / R. Barry Lewis, Charles Stout, and Cameron B. Wesson -- Town structure at the edge of the Mississippian world / Claudine Payne and John F. Scarry -- The nature of Mississippian towns in Georgia: the King site example / David J. Hally and Hypatia Kelly -- Mississippian towns in the eastern Tennessee valley / Gerald F. Schroedl -- Mississippian sacred landscapes: the view from Alabama / Cameron B. Wesson -- Mississippi period mound groups and communities in the lower Mississippi valley / Tristram R. Kidder -- Mississippian towns in Kentucky / Charles Stout and R. Barry Lewis -- Towns along the lower Ohio / Jon Muller -- The Mississippian town plan and cultural landscape of Cahokia, Illinois / Scott J. Demel and Robert L. Hall -- The town as metaphor / R. Barry Lewis and Charles Stout.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Architecture is the most visible physical manifestation of human culture. The built environment envelops our lives and projects our distinctive regional and ethnic identities to the world around us. Archaeology and architecture find common theoretical ground in their perspectives on the homes, spaces, and communities that people create for themselves. In this volume, prominent archaeologists examine the architectural design spaces of Mississippian towns and mound centers of the eastern United States. The diverse Mississippian societies, which existed between A.D. 900 and 1700, created some of the largest and most complex Native American archaeological sites in the United States. The dominant architectural feature shared by these communities was one or more large plazas, each of which was often flanked by buildings set on platform mounds.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0817309470 (paperback)
9780817309473 (paperback)

Subject:

Mississippian culture.
Mississippian architecture.
Urban Indians North America.
Sacred space Southern States.
Sacred space Mississippi River Valley.
Culture du Mississippi.
Indiens d'Amérique Amérique du Nord Habitat urbain États-Unis (Sud)
Indiens d'Amérique Amérique du Nord Habitat urbain Mississippi, Vallée du.
Lieux sacrés États-Unis (Sud)
Lieux sacrés Mississippi, Vallée du.
Temple Mound period.
Urban Indians
Antiquities
Sacred space
Mississippikultur
Stadt
Aufsatzsammlung
Kultstätte
Iwi taketake.
Urban indigenous peoples Southern States.
Urban indigenous peoples Mississippi River Valley.
Southern States Antiquities.
Mississippi River Valley Antiquities.
États-Unis (Sud) Antiquités.
Mississippi, Vallée du Antiquités.
North America
Mississippi River Valley
Southern States

Added entries:

Lewis, R. Barry.
Stout, Charles B.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 230605
Call No.: E99.M6815 M575 1998
Status: Available