Mound Excavations at Moundville: Architecture, Elites and Social Order

by Vernon James Knight Jr.

How social and political power was wielded in order to build Moundville

This work is a state-of-the-art, data-rich study of excavations undertaken at the Moundville site in west central Alabama, one of the largest and most complex of the mound sites of pre-contact North America. Despite the site's importance and sustained attention by researchers, until now it has lacked a comprehensive analysis of its modern excavations. Richly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817316876
• ISBN13: 9780817316877
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.9" x 11.0"