Date Available
6-3-2011
Year of Publication
2011
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Document Type
Dissertation
College
Arts and Sciences
Department
Anthropology
First Advisor
Dr. Richard Jefferies
Abstract
Although the Mississippian culture area has been studied for decades, the frontier of the Mississippian region is less understood. Various Mississippian frontiers appear to have been important for the obtainment of trade goods which were important symbols of chiefly power. Studying these frontiers will allow archaeologists to better understand the emergence and maintenance of power within Southeastern chiefdoms. This dissertation explores one frontier site, Carter Robinson (44LE10) in southwestern Virginia, and its role in Southern Appalachian chiefdom power through its control of trade at the border. This research identifies ceramic and non-utilitarian markers of trade and identifies changes at the frontier site over time, an accumulation of power that occurred through control of trade.
Recommended Citation
Meyers, Maureen Elizabeth Siewert, "POLITICAL ECONOMY OF EXOTIC TRADE ON THE MISSISSIPPIAN FRONTIER: A CASE STUDY OF A FOURTEENTH CENTURY CHIEFDOM IN SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA" (2011). University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations. 126.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/126
