Etymology
Origin of chiefdom
Example Sentences
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As Baumgartel explained, "We believe these people were egalitarian hunter-gatherers, not subjects to some powerful chiefdom."
From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2025
Archaeologists believe Tequesta, which straddled both banks of the Miami River, became the capital of a chiefdom that stretched across southeast Florida from roughly 500 B.C.E. to the 1500s C.E.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 10, 2023
Under the Piscataway chiefdom, other tribes — including the Yaocomico, Mattawoman, Pamunkey, Mattaponi and Nanjemoy — were interconnected with their own systems of justice, governing and defending themselves.
From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022
Four people have been brought to the hospital, according to Pilo Mulindo, the head of the chiefdom of Bahema N’adhere.
From Washington Times • Feb. 2, 2022
Some believe that there was a fifth power: Chalcatzingo, an important chiefdom between the Central Basin and Oaxaca.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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