Mississippian mortuary practices beyond hierarchy and the representationist perspective /
The residents of Mississippian towns principally located in the southeastern and midwestern United States from 900 to1500 A.D. made many beautiful objects, which included elaborate and well-crafted copper and shell ornaments, pottery vessels, and stonework. Some of these objects were socially valued...
| Други автори: | Sullivan, Lynne P., Mainfort, R. C. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2010.
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Ripley P. Bullen series.
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Mississippian mortuary practices. |
Съдържание:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; 1. Mississippian Mortuary Practices and the Quest for Interpretation; 2. The Missing Persons in Mississippian Mortuaries; 3. Cosmological Layouts of Secondary Burials as Political Instruments; 4. Multiple Groups, Overlapping Symbols, and the Creation of a Sacred Space at Etowah's Mound C; 5. Social and Spatial Dimensions of Moundville Mortuary Practices; 6. Aztalan Mortuary Practices Revisited; 7. Mississippian Dimensions of a Fort Ancient Mortuary Program: The Development of Authority and Spatial Grammar at SunWatch Village.
- 8. Temporal Changes in Mortuary Behavior: Evidence from the Middle and Upper Nodena Sites, Arkansas9. The Materialization of Status and Social Structure at Koger's Island Cemetery, Alabama; 10. Pecan Point as the "Capital" of Pacaha: A Mortuary Perspective; 11. Mound Construction and Community Changes within the Mississippian Community at Town Creek; 12. Mortuary Practices and Cultural Identity at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century in Eastern Tennessee; 13. The Mortuary Assemblage from the Holliston Mills Site, a Mississippian Town in Upper East Tennessee.
- 14. Caves as Mortuary Contexts in the SoutheastReferences Cited; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W.