Alabama and the Borderlands: From Prehistory to Statehood by Reid Badger, Lawrence A. Clayton, Dr. Marvin T. Smith, Bruce

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By Reid Badger, Lawrence A. Clayton, Dr. Marvin T. Smith, Bruce D. Smith, Richard A. Krause, Eugene Lyon, Charles Hudson, Jeffrey P. Brain, Chester B. DePratter, Hazel P. Coker, William S. Coker, Michale C. Scardaville, Wilcomb Washburn, James B. Griffin

Born of a priority with Alabama's previous and the necessity to discover and clarify that legacy, this e-book brings jointly the nation's best students at the prehistory and early background of Alabama and the southeastern U.S. masking subject matters starting from the Mississippian interval in archaeology and the de Soto excursion (and different early ecu explorations and settlements of Alabama) to the 1780 Siege of cellular, this can be a entire and readable selection of scholarship on early Alabama.

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D. 700 to 900 those regions with abundant natural foods were sustaining peak hunting and harvesting populations. Let us further suppose that periodically used but economically important portions of one region were successfully claimed by immigrant cultivators. A part of the region would thus be removed from the reach of resident hunters and harvesters, creating an intense, if local, disruption of the natural resource/population balance. Hunting and gathering groups could temporarily redress the problem by extending their range.

This was the case in Mexico, and in the nations of South America; a great number of individuals were at the disposal of the chie( who treated them little better than slaves. The smaller the society, the greater consequence of each individual. Hence, there would not be wanting a sufficient number of hands to erect mounds or pyramids. 7 42 CHANGING CONCEPTS OF MISSISSIPPIAN CULTURES The population estimate of Philadelphia in r8ro was based on an organized head count within a time frame of no more than one year.

Or perhaps a bit earlier, the Western Hemisphere was settled by hunting and harvesting peoples whose lifestyles seem remarkably homogeneous. 19 This homogeneity-which may be more apparent than real-nonetheless allows us to use the Great Plains of North America as a kind of test area for anticipating the patterning of social development expected of early hunting groups farther south and east. In the Great Plains of North America, two distinct forms of fluted projectile points-one found exclusively with the mammoth 2I Richard A.

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