An evolutionary model of social change in the Middle Ohio Valley: Was social complexity impossible during the late woodland but mandatory during the late prehistoric?

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 62-79

  Nolan, Kevin C ^a   Cook, Robert A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental variability; Evolutionary ecology; Fort Ancient; Late Prehistoric period; Madisonville Horizon; Middle Mississippian; Middle Ohio Valley; PDSI; Social complexity; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 74249109755     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: 10902686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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