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Functional Considerations of Warfare in the Southeast during The Mississippi Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Lewis H. Larson Jr.
Lewis H. Larson Jr.*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Georgia College
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Abstract

During the last purely aboriginal period in the southeastern United States, most, if not all, of the settlements in the interior areas were fortified, implying a cultural pattern of extensive warfare. This paper examines the nature and function of defensive works protecting the sites and advances the hypothesis that warfare at this time resulted from competition for arable land.

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American Antiquity , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , July 1972 , pp. 383 - 392
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1972

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