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Circular villages of the Monongahela tradition /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Means, Bernard K. (Bernard Klaus), 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Dwellings > Pennsylvania.
Indians of North America > Dwellings > Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Indian architecture > Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Central-plan buildings > Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Land settlement patterns > Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Social archaeology > Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.) > Antiquities.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Village spatial layouts and social organizations
  • A review of the late prehistoric Monongahela tradition and the new chronology for Allegheny Mountains villages
  • Villages, communities, and social organizations
  • Building models of village spatial and social organizations
  • Models and hypotheses related to community organization
  • Data sources, variables, and analytical approaches
  • Modeling community patterning from select village components in the Allegheny Mountains region
  • Comparative analyses from modeling individual village components
  • Implications drawn from interpreting community organization through village spatial layouts.