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Language, History and Prehistory: Mississippian Lexico-Reconstruction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Marion Johnson Mochon
Marion Johnson Mochon*
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Division of Social Science AnthropologyUniversity of Wisconsin-Parkside
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Abstract

Lexico-reconstruction techniques are used to examine the possible affinities between speakers of the Muskogean and Siouan families and the bearers of Mississippian culture. Lexical data are presented in terms of a typology of social systems which is descriptive of the range of socio-cultural complexity which characterizes Mississippian communities and societies. These social systems are defined as: descent-ranked societies, genealogy-ranked societies, and stratified societies. Non-material aspects of Mississippian culture are also examined. These suggest a concern with calendrics and the presence of mathematical decimal systems.

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American Antiquity , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , October 1972 , pp. 478 - 503
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1972

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