James River Chiefdoms: The Rise of Social Inequality in the Chesapeake

From: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

James River Chiefdoms: The Rise of Social Inequality in the Chesapeake * Martin Gallivan * Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2003 * xvii, 295 pp. * $55.00

Combining the archaeology of the James River Valley with the ethnohistorical accounts of the earliest colonists in the area, Martin Gallivan re-creates the evolution of social hierarchy among the Powhatan Indians of Virginia. Between 1200 and 1500 A.D. the primarily foraging, egalitarian, nomadic culture of the Indians gave way to life in permanent villages dependent on cultivated crops and ruled by members of an elite group ...

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