Mississippian Mortuary Practices

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Mississippian Mortuary Practices

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Author : Lynne P. Sullivan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010

Mississippian Mortuary Practices written by Lynne P. Sullivan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Indians of North America categories.

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 goods and often were placed in ritual context, such as graves. The funerary context of these artifacts has sparked considerable study and debate among archaeologists, raising questions about the place in society of the individuals interred with such items, as well as the nature of the societies i.

Mississippian Mortuary Practices

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Author : Lynne P. Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2010-04-18

Mississippian Mortuary Practices written by Lynne P. Sullivan and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-18 with Social Science categories.

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 goods and often were placed in ritual context, such as graves. The funerary context of these artifacts has sparked considerable study and debate among archaeologists, raising questions about the place in society of the individuals interred with such items, as well as the nature of the societies in which these people lived. By focusing on how mortuary practices serve as symbols of beliefs and values for the living, the contributors to Mississippian Mortuary Practices explore how burial of the dead reflects and reinforces the cosmology of specific cultures, the status of living participants in the burial ceremony, ongoing kin relationships, and other aspects of social organization.

Mississippian Mortuary Practices

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Author : Lynne Goldstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980

Mississippian Mortuary Practices written by Lynne Goldstein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Excavations (Archaeology) categories.

Mississippian Period Mortuary Practices In The Central Illinois River Valley

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Author : Michael Strezewski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Mississippian Period Mortuary Practices In The Central Illinois River Valley written by Michael Strezewski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.

Regional Approaches To Mortuary Analysis

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Author : Lane Anderson Beck
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-11-11

Regional Approaches To Mortuary Analysis written by Lane Anderson Beck and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-11 with Social Science categories.

In this volume, archaeologists offer a new direction for burial research by expanding the models for mortuary analysis from a site-specific to a regional level. Contributors explore how regional mortuary approaches allow the introduction of new questions about peer polity interactions and regional alliances-extending traditional settlement system and exchange analyses. This volume features case studies examining mortuary sites as components of the archaeological landscape.

A Mortuary Analysis Of The Vernon Paul Site 3cs25

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Author : Thomas Nelson Gannon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

A Mortuary Analysis Of The Vernon Paul Site 3cs25 written by Thomas Nelson Gannon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Chiefdoms categories.

Mortuary Patterns In West Central Tennessee

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Author : Brooke A. Wamsley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018

Mortuary Patterns In West Central Tennessee written by Brooke A. Wamsley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.

Middle Mississippian is a both a cultural and temporal (1200 CE--1400 CE) archaeological context of Midwestern North America. This cultural tradition is associated with mound building, specific art motifs, arguably stratified societies, intensive agriculture, and specific ritual/mortuary practices. Burial sites can be very valuable to archaeologists because of the purposeful interaction between the living and the deceased and reconstruct cultural elements such as social identity and group membership. While American archaeology continues to be fieldwork-focused, there are a considerable amount of cultural resources housed in museum collections that could provide data for research into pre-Columbian lifeways in North America. This project used archived excavation information from past fieldwork to ask modern contextual questions about sites that are archaeologically inaccessible. These field notes and reports as well as a recent inventory of the curated human osteological remains were used to analyze the mortuary patterns (e.g., grave accompaniments, burial orientation, burial location, segregation by age or sex) of nine Middle Mississippian period sites from what is now the Kentucky Lake reservoir of west-central Tennessee. Among the results of the mortuary assessment is the recognition that sex, rather than rank or social role, is a primary identity marker.

Mortuary Practices Social Status And Wealth At The Rhodes Site In Moundville Alabama

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Author : Ted Clay Nelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014

Mortuary Practices Social Status And Wealth At The Rhodes Site In Moundville Alabama written by Ted Clay Nelson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Electronic dissertations categories.

The Rhodes residential area is part of the Moundville archaeological site (1TU500), a Mississippian civic and ceremonial mound center located on the Black Warrior River in present-day Tuscaloosa and Hale Counties of Alabama. It was excavated in the 1930s as two areas: the Rhodes site and the Upper Rhodes site. Because the Rhodes residential area was both a residential group and a cemetery, it is productive for examining area specific mortuary practices and how these practices compare to other residential group cemeteries at Moundville. Using mortuary analysis to further explore mortuary practices and social organization inform the research objectives that were set forth for this thesis. The major objectives of the project were as follows: 1) discern when in time the site was occupied and used as measured by ceramic samples; 2) interpret the social status and wealth of the people buried in the Rhodes residential area as measured by the quantity and diversity of artifacts in graves; and 3) compare the social status and wealth of the Rhodes residential area burial population to the social status of other residential burial populations at Moundville as measured by previous studies. The results demonstrate that a complex intertwining of ascribed and achieved status exists in Rhodes burials. More importantly, the results show that burial goods are not distributed the same way in every residential group. I conclude that access to wealth and status was specific to each residential kin group with a complex system of status based on birth and achievement. This research contributes to the ongoing evaluation of Mississippian and Moundville social organization and mortuary practices as well as ongoing studies of how social inequality was manifested in the past.

Land Of Water City Of The Dead

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Author : Sarah E. Baires
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2017-06-27

Land Of Water City Of The Dead written by Sarah E. Baires and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-27 with Religion categories.

Explores the embodiment of religion in the Cahokia land and how places create, make meaningful, and transform practices and beliefs Cahokia, the largest city of the Mississippian mound cultures, lies outside present-day East St. Louis. Land of Water, City of the Dead reconceptualizes Cahokia’s emergence and expansion (ca. 1050–1200), focusing on understanding a newly imagined religion and complexity through a non-Western lens. Sarah E. Baires argues that this system of beliefs was a dynamic, lived component, based on a broader ontology, with roots in other mound societies. This religion was realized through novel mortuary practices and burial mounds as well as through the careful planning and development of this early city’s urban landscape. Baires analyzes the organization and alignment of the precinct of downtown Cahokia with a specific focus on the newly discovered and excavated Rattlesnake Causeway and the ridge-top mortuary mounds located along the site axes. Land of Water, City of the Dead also presents new data from the 1954 excavations of the ridge-top mortuary Wilson Mound and a complete analysis of the associated human remains. Through this skeletal analysis, Baires discusses the ways that Cahokians processed and buried their ancestors, identifying unique mortuary practices that include the intentional dismemberment of human bodies and burial with marine shell beads and other materials.

Kin Groups And Mortuary Practices

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Author : Robert George Kingsley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985

Kin Groups And Mortuary Practices written by Robert George Kingsley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Archaeology categories.