Bøker av John H. Blitz

In the 13th century, Moundville was one of the largest Native American settlements north of Mexico. Illustrated with 50 color photos, maps, and figures, this work tells the story of the ancient people who lived there, the modern struggle to save the site from destruction, and the scientific saga of the archaeologists who brought the story to life.

Provides a summary of the excavations at several important but poorly documented mound sites, and synthesizes this data into a phase-by-phase history of chiefdom development in the Chattahoochee Valley. This book presents a model for the development and spread of Mississippian societies through the Southeast.

Focuses on the small and large 10th-century Mississippian societies in the Tombigbee-Black Warrior River region of Alabama and Mississippi, concluding that the sanctified, security maintenance roles of communal food storage management and war leadership were a basis for formal chiefly authority.