Real Mound Builders of North America (eBook)

A. Martin Byers was CEGEP professor at Vanier College and research associate at McGill University.

Introduction: Continuist and Discontinuist HistoriesChapter 1: The Incomplete Debunking of the Mound Builder MythologyChapter 2: Unitary Polities and Dual Heterarchies: Apprehending Social Systems from Alternative Perspectives Chapter 3: The Dual Complementary Heterarchical Community/Cult Sodality Heterarchy ModelChapter 4: The Symbolic Pragmatic Model of Style and the Custodial Franchising of Sacred BundlesChapter 5: The World Renewal Mortuary Model: The Postmortem Human Sacrificial ChaîneOpératoire Mortuary TrajectoryChapter 6: Settlement, Subsistence, and Ceremonialism: The Deontic Ecology of the Prehistoric Eastern WoodlandsChapter 7: The Dissolution of a Transregional Second-Order Hopewellian Ceremonial SphereChapter 8: Community Polities or Dual Heterarchies: Extreme Displaced Mortuary Depositionsand Demonstrating the “Best Fit” TruthChapter 9: The Emergence of the Complementary Heterarchical Chiefdom Community: Singular-Selective Candidature PracticeChapter 10: The Emergence of Vacant Quarters and the Late Prehistoric Period→Post-Late Prehistoric Period TransitionChapter 11: The Lower Chattahoochee River Valley: A Primary Southeastern MississippianCeremonial SphereChapter 12: The Late Prehistoric Period Savannah River Valley: A First-Order SouthernAppalachian Complicated-Stamped Ceremonial SphereChapter 13: The Etowah Site of the Etowah River Valley Late Prehistoric Period:Paramount Chiefdom Polity or Dispersed Third-Order Cult Sodality Heterarchy?Chapter 14: The Formation and Transformation of Mound C of the Etowah SiteConclusion: The Real Mound Builder Social World