Migration and Climate Change in Mississippian Archaeology: An Introduction and Brief History

Author(s): John Blitz

Year: 2019

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Migration and Climate Change: The Spread of Mississippian Culture" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper introduces the symposium "Migration and Climate Change: The Spread of Mississippian Culture ca. A.D. 1050-1400." I provide a brief history of migration and climate change research in the archaeology of Mississippian societies. These earlier research efforts -- the theoretical contexts in which they occurred, the critiques they encountered, the insights they produced, and the limitations of their methods -- serve as a prologue to the papers in the symposium.

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Migration and Climate Change in Mississippian Archaeology: An Introduction and Brief History. John Blitz. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 451017)

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Abstract Id(s): 22953