Mississippian chiefdoms and the fission-fusion process

American Antiquity

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 577-592

  Blitz, John H ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/2694206     Document Type: Article

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