Abstract
Frequent population movement and political re-organization spurred a pattern of repeated abandonment at the Mississippian mound center of Etowah in the southeastern United States. These processes also characterized the larger surrounding region in north Georgia and southeast Tennessee. The Etowah abandonments provided inflection points where interest groups were able to distance themselves from previous conventions of structure and reformulate new forms of sociopolitical organization. Re-invented traditions were embedded in changing definitions of genealogical and mythical time, and mediated through the built environment and iconography.
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Cobb, C.R., King, A. Re-Inventing Mississippian Tradition at Etowah, Georgia. J Archaeol Method Theory 12, 167–193 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-005-6927-y
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