%0 Book %D 2000 %T From quarry to cornfield: The political economy of Mississippian Hoe production %A Cobb, Charles R. %C Tuscaloosa %I University of Alabama Press %K Hoes %K Illinois Antiquities. %K Indians of North America Illinois Antiquities. %K Mill Creek Site (Ill.) %K Mississippi River Valley Antiquities. %K Mississippian culture. %K Prehistoric Mississippi River Valley. %L Jefferson or Adams Bldg %P xv, 257 p. %Z Charles R. Cobb.ill., maps ; 24 cm.A day in the life -- Specialization, exchange, and power in small-scale societies and chiefdoms -- Exchanging chert, consuming chert -- Rethinking the organization of lithic technology -- Life in the Mississippian uplands -- The regional structure of Hoe production -- Hoe production and the domestic economy -- Production and power: defining scales. %@ 0817310509 (acid-free pa