In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively, engaging, and informed prose, Timothy Pauketat debunks much of this social-evolutionary theorizing about human development, as he ponders the evidence of 'chiefdoms' left behind by the Mississippian culture of the American southern heartland. This book challenges all students of history and prehistory to reexamine the actual evidence that archaeology has made available, and to do so with an open mind.
- ISBN10 0759112509
- ISBN13 9780759112506
- Publish Date 30 May 2007 (first published 25 May 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint AltaMira Press,U.S.
- Format eBook
- Pages 270
- Language English