Power and place: agency, ecology, and history in the American Bottom, Illinois.(Research)

From: Antiquity | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: Schroeder, Sissel | Copyright information

Is ecology or agency the principal imperative of the formation of complex societies? Using new survey data, the author shows how both interest in the development of the riverside settlement area of the American Bottom and how the different modern histories of the northern (industrial) and the southern (agricultural) American Bottom, have affected the survival of evidence and how this in turn has favoured a different emphasis in interpretation for each.

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