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"James River Chiefdoms explores puzzling discrepancies between the ethnohistoric and archaeological records of the Powhatan and Monacan societies Jamestown colonists met in 1607. The colonists described the coastal Powhatans and the Monacans of the James River interior in terms that evoke the anthropological notion of a chiefdom, but the Chesapeake region's archaeological record lacks elements typically associated with complex polities." "In an effort to account for these apparent incongruities, Martin D. Gallivan synthesizes ethnohistoric accounts with the archaeology of thirty-five Native…
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1 edition- Hardcover · English · 2003University of Nebraska Press · 295 pages · 9780803221864
Surplus agricultural commoditiesAgriculture and state, united statesPowhatan IndiansKings and rulersFirst contact with EuropeansAntiquitiesExcavations (Archaeology)Chiefdoms