The Savannah River Chiefdoms: Political Change in the Late Prehistoric Southeast

This volume explores political change in chiefdoms, specifically how complex chiefdoms emerge and collapse, and how this process-called cycling-can be examined using archaeological, ethnohistoric, paleoclimatic, paleosubsistence, and physical anthropological data. The focus for the research is the prehistoric and initial contact-era Mississippian chiefdoms of the Southeastern United States, specifically the societies occupying the Savannah River basin from ca. A.D. 1000 to 1600. This regio...