Circular Villages of the Monongahela Tradition

by Bernard K. Means

Between A.D. 1000 and 1635, the inhabitants of southwestern Pennsylvania and portions of adjacent states--known to archaeologists as the Monongahela Culture or Tradition--began to reside regularly in ring-shaped village settlements. These circular settlements consisted of dwellings around a central plaza. A cross-cultural and cross-temporal review of archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic cases demonstrates that this settlement form appeared...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817354387
• ISBN13: 9780817354381
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"