Perhaps most importantly, the ancient animal-focused and hunting-based religion and cosmology were being replaced by solar and warfare iconography, consistent with societies dependent on agriculture, and whose elites were increasingly in competition with one another. But by the first millennium A.D., some parts of the region had densely packed civic ceremonial centers ruled by hereditary elites. At the beginning of the period, people are assumed to have been living in small groups, loosely bound by collective burial rituals. Researchers have learned that in this approximately 2000-year era the peoples of the Southeast experienced increasing sedentism, population growth, and organizational complexity. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research over the past 25 years. This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States.The Woodland Period (ca. Minor shelf wear, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Pugh Burns, Marie E Baehr, Wolfgang Constantine, Ryan Zhang, Houbin Frederick, Jeanne M Ruggiero, Linda Finnemann, Silvia Sampath, Alapakkam P DeVries, Steven H. The New Visual Neurosciences (The MIT Press)
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