The Ascent of Chiefs
ISBN: 9780817384180
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / The University of Alabama Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Chiefdoms.; Mississippian culture.;

Provides a theoretical explanation of how prehistoric Cahokia became a stratified society

Considering Cahokia in terms of class struggle, Pauketat claims that the political consolidation in this region of the Mississippi Valley happened quite suddenly, around A.D. 1000, after which the lords of Cahokia innovated strategies to preserve their power and ultimately emerged as divine chiefs. The new ideas and new data in this volume will invigorate the debate surrounding one of the most important developments in North American prehistory.

Timothy R. Pauketat is an assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma.

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