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Reaping the Whirlwind
F+W Media 2012; US$ 16.99This title offers an amazing insight into the events of World War II through the eyes of those who fought against the Allied forces in all theatres of the war.It features many previously unpublished accounts of the war from German and Japanese soldiers, civilians and military leaders.It covers every major arena of the war: Europe; the German invasion... more...
A History of the Osage People
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 39.95Traces 400 years of Osage culture from prehistoric times to the group's current status as an officially recognized tribe. Osage traditional lands are located in mid-continental America encompassed by the present-day states of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Major waterways through these lands and the defensible terrain of the Ozark... more...
Architectural Variability in the Southeast
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 32.95Some of the most visible expressions of human culture are illustrated architecturally. Unfortunately for archaeologists, the architecture being studied is not always visible and must be inferred from soil inconsistencies or charred remains. This study deals with research into roughly a millennium of Native American architecture in the Southeast... more...
The Archaeology of Everyday Life at Early Moundville
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 29.95Complex Mississippian polities were neither developed nor sustained in a vacuum. A broad range of small-scale social groups played a variety of roles in the emergence of regionally organized political hierarchies that governed large-scale ceremonial centers. Recent research has revealed the extent to which interactions among corporately organized... more...
Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 29.95At its height the Moundville ceremonial center was a densely occupied town of approximately 1,000 residents, with at least 29 earthen mounds surrounding a central plaza. Today, Moundville is not only one the largest and best-preserved Mississippian sites in the United States, but also one of the most intensively studied. This volume brings together... more...
SunWatch
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 29.95The last prehistoric cultures to inhabit the Middle Ohio Valley (ca. A.D. 1000–1650) are referred to as Fort Ancient societies, which exhibited a wide variety of Mississippian period characteristics. What is less well-known and little understood are the social processes by which Mississippian characteristics spread to Fort Ancient... more...
Choctaw Prophecy
University of Alabama Press 2003; US$ 34.95This intriguing study explores the power and artistry of prophecy among the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, who use predictions about the future to interpret the world around them. This book challenges the common assumption that American Indian prophecy was an anomaly of the 18th and 19th centuries that resulted from tribes across the... more...
Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley
University of Alabama Press 2011; US$ 34.95Fourteen experts examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research and provide an important touchstone for future archaeological study of the region. The Mississippi Valley region has long played a critical role in the development of American archaeology and continues to be widely known for the major research of the early... more...
Pox, Empire, Shackles, and Hides
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 20.00The late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries were an extremely turbulent time for southeastern American Indian groups. Indeed, between the founding of the Charles Town colony along the south Atlantic coast in 1670 and the outbreak of the Yamasee War in 1715, disease, warfare, and massive population displacements dramatically altered the... more...









