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Timothy R. Pauketat, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007
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0-7591-0828-5 / 978-0-7591-0828-8
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May 2007
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0-7591-0829-3 / 978-0-7591-0829-5
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"This volume will repay reading and careful study, and this reviewer intends to assign it in her North American prehistory course in the spring. Summing Up: Highly Recommended. All academic libraries/levels."—L. L. Johnson, Vassar College Choice, Outstanding Academic List 2007
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In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively, engaging, and informed prose, Timothy Pauketat debunks much of this social-evolutionary theorizing about human development, as he ponders the evidence of "chiefdoms" left behind by the Mississippian culture of the American southern heartland. This book challenges all students of history and prehistory to reexamine the actual evidence that archaeology has made available, and to do so with an open mind.
About the Author
Timothy Pauketat is Professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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