James River Chiefdoms: The Rise of Social Inequality in the Chesapeake (Our Sustainable Future)

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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 usually 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 settlements dating from A.D. 1–1610 to identify and light up social changes in large part undetected by previous research. A comparative, quantitative analysis of residential archaeology within the James River Valley highlights a rearrangement of day-to-day practices within Native villages between 1200 and 1500. James River villagers reorganized their domestic production, settlements, and regional interactions to create new funds of power within social settings perched between communally oriented cultural practices and exclusionary political strategies. All through the early-seventeenth-century colonial encounter, Native leaders were thus situated to employ strategies that, for a time, eclipsed communal decision-making structures within the Chesapeake.
 
James River Chiefdoms presents a novel standpoint on the most important chapter within the history of Native peoples in eastern North The usa and on early colonial The usa. It offers an innovative interpretive approach to Native American culture history and the emergence of hierarchical political organizations within the Americas.

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