Residential burial, gender roles, and political development in late prehistoric and early cherokee cultures of the southern appalachians

Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-97

  Sullivan, Lynne P ^a   Rodning, Christopher B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cherokee; Gender; Mississippian; North Carolina; Tennessee

Indexed keywords

EID: 85040393364     PISSN: 1551823X     EISSN: 15518248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-8248.2011.01029.x     Document Type: Article

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