The Real Mound Builders of North America : A Critical Realist Prehistory of the Eastern Woodlands, 200 BC-1450 AD.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Continuist and Discontinuist Histories -- Chapter One. The Incomplete Debunking of the Mound Builder Mythology -- Chapter Two. Unitary Polities or Dual Heterarchies: The Archaeological Record from Alternative Social Systems Perspectives -- Chapter Three. The Dual Complementary Heterarchical Community/Cult Sodality Heterarchy Model -- Chapter Four. The Symbolic Pragmatic Model of Material Cultural Style and the Custodial Franchising of Sacred Bundles -- Chapter Five. The Mourning/World Renewal Mortuary Model: The Postmortem Human Sacrificial Chaîne Opératoire Mortuary Trajectory -- Chapter Six. Settlement, Subsistence, and Ceremonialism: The Deontic Ecology of the Prehistoric Eastern Woodlands -- Chapter Seven. The Dissolution of a Transregional Hopewellian Second-Order Ceremonial Sphere -- Chapter Eight. Community Polities or Dual Heterarchies: Extreme Displaced Mortuary Deposition and Demonstrating the "Best Fit" Truth -- Chapter Nine. The Emergence of the Complementary Heterarchical Chiefdom Community: Singular-Selective Candidature Practice -- Chapter Ten. The Emergence of Vacant Quarters and the Late Prehistoric Period→Post-Late Prehistoric Period Transition -- Chapter Eleven. The Lower Chattahoochee River Valley: A Primary Southeastern Mississippian Ceremonial Sphere -- Chapter Twelve. The Late Prehistoric Period Savannah River Valley: A First-Order Southern Appalachian Complicated Stamped Ceremonial Sphere -- Chapter Thirteen. The Etowah Site of the Etowah River Valley Late Prehistoric Period: Paramount Chiefdom Polity or Dispersed Third-Order Cult Sodality Heterarchy? -- Chapter Fourteen. The Formation and Transformation of Mound C of the Etowah Site -- Conclusion. The Real Mound Builder Social Systems -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

The Real Mound Builders of North America contrasts the evolutionary view that emphasizes abrupt discontinuities with the Hopewellian ceremonial assemblage and mounds. Byers argues that these communities persisted unchanged in terms of their essential structures and traditions, varying only in ceremonial practices that manifested these structures.

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