From Quarry to Cornfield: The Political Economy of Mississippian Hoe Production - Softcover

Cobb, Charles R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0817310509 ISBN 13: 9780817310509

Publisher: The University of Alabama Press, 2010

Synopsis

A case study of raw material procurement, production and usage at Dillow's Ridge, Illinois. The author examines daily life in a chiefdom village that flourished around 1250-1500, providing a window on the specialized tasks of day labourers who produced the stone hoes necessary to feed the village.

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Review:

"Cobb offers keen insight on the debate over production in Mississippian chiefdoms by demonstrating through sophisticated theorizing and its grounding in data how surplus labor was mobilized without exploitation, and how the motives that guided producers of Mill Creek hoes were as varied as the producers themselves."—Kenneth Sassaman, University of Florida

"One of the first efforts to study lithic production as both a material and a social process . . . . This study will for a long time provide an important model for others seeking to place production in a truly historical materialistic framework."—American Antiquity

About the Author:

Charles Richard Cobb is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0817310509
• ISBN 13: 9780817310509
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288