Mortuary Patterns In West Central Tennessee
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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.
Archaeology Of The Southern Appalachians And Adjacent Watersheds
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Author : C. Clifford Boyd
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Release Date : 2023
Archaeology Of The Southern Appalachians And Adjacent Watersheds written by C. Clifford Boyd and has been published by Univ. of Tennessee Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with History categories.
"This book presents archaeological research from the Early and Middle Archaic in the Southeast in part as a tribute to the career of Jefferson Chapman, longtime director of the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture on the Knoxville campus of the University of Tennessee. With essays written by many of Chapman's former students, each essay probes a site critical to our understanding of ancient southeastern peoples as well as Chapman's original work at Tellico and his legacy to the field of archaeology"--
Sociopolitical Dimensions Of The Mississippian System In The Cumberland River Valley Of Middle Tennessee And Western Kentucky
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Author : William Olive Autry (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Sociopolitical Dimensions Of The Mississippian System In The Cumberland River Valley Of Middle Tennessee And Western Kentucky written by William Olive Autry (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with categories.
Mississippian Culture Heroes Ritual Regalia And Sacred Bundles
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Author : David H. Dye
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2021-07-13
Mississippian Culture Heroes Ritual Regalia And Sacred Bundles written by David H. Dye and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with Social Science categories.
In Mississippian Culture Heroes, Ritual Regalia, and Sacred Bundles, archaeologists analyze evidence of the religious beliefs and ritual practices of Mississippian people through the lens of indigenous ontologies and material culture. Employing archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistoric evidence, the contributors explore the recent emphasis on iconography as an important component for interpreting eastern North America’s ancient past. The research in this volume emphasizes the animistic nature of animals and objects, erasing the false divide between people and other-than-human beings. Drawing on an array of empirical approaches, the contributors demonstrate the importance of understanding beliefs and ritual and the significance of investigating how people in the past practiced religion and ritual by crafting, circulating, using, and ultimately decommissioning material items and spaces, including ceramic effigies, rock art, sacred bundles, shell gorgets, stone figurines, and symbolic weaponry.
Social Identities In Subadults Based On Mortuary Treatments
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Author : Christopher E. Nicosia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Social Identities In Subadults Based On Mortuary Treatments written by Christopher E. Nicosia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
There has been little research on the mortuary practices within the Middle (~6,000-3,000 BC) to Late Archaic (~2500-500 BC) period, particularly with respect to subadults. The biological sex of a subadult is difficult to assess because there are very few sexually dimorphic skeletal attributes before puberty. However, recent methodologies involving dentition, pelvis, portions of the skull, and long bones (humerus, femur) have sex-assignment accuracies that prove to be archaeologically useful. This project seeks to determine if there is a sex-based social identity in Archaic period subadults in the Tennessee River Valley of west-central Tennessee by identifying a suite of sex-specific grave accompaniments in the adults and determining if they also occur in the subadults. This is compared to the results of the subadult protocols to determine of there is congruence. The seven Archaic sites examined are: Oakview Landing, Cherry, Eva, McDaniel, Kays Landing, Big Sandy and Ledbetter Landing. The study determined that few of the grave goods were sex-specific.
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.
Death And Dying In Central Appalachia
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Author : James K. Crissman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Death And Dying In Central Appalachia written by James K. Crissman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
In Death and Dying in Central Appalachia, James Crissman explores cultural traits related to death and dying in the Appalachian sections of Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia, showing how they have changed since the 1600's. Relying on archival materials, almost forty photographs, and interviews with more than 400 mountain dwellers, Crissman focuses on the importance of familism and 'neighborliness' in mountain society.
New Deal Archaeology In Tennessee
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Author : David H. Dye
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2016-06-30
New Deal Archaeology In Tennessee written by David H. Dye 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 2016-06-30 with History categories.
4. Reinterpreting the Shell Mound Archaic in Western Tennessee: A GIS-Based Approach to Radiocarbon Sampling of New Deal-Era Site Collections - Thaddeus G. Bissett -- 5. Depression-Era Archaeology in the Watts Bar Reservoir, East Tennessee - Shannon Koerner and Jessica Dalton-Carriger -- 6. WPA Excavations at the Mound Bottom and Pack Sites in Middle Tennessee, 1936-1940 - Michael C. Moore, David H. Dye, and Kevin E. Smith -- 7. Reconfiguring the Chickamauga Basin - Lynne P. Sullivan
Gathering Hopewell
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Author : Christopher Carr
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2005-11-22
Gathering Hopewell written by Christopher Carr 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 2005-11-22 with Social Science categories.
Among the most socially and personally vocal archaeological remains on the North American continent are the massive and often complexly designed earthen architecture of Hopewellian peoples of two thousand years ago, their elaborately embellished works of art made of glistening metals and stones from faraway places, and their highly formalized mortuaries. In this book, twenty-one researchers in interwoven efforts immerse themselves and the reader in this vibrant archaeological record in order to richly reconstruct the societies, rituals, and ritual interactions of Hopewellian peoples. By finding the faces, actions, and motivations of Hopewellian peoples as individuals who constructed knowable social roles, the authors explore, in a personalized and locally contextualized manner, the details of Hopewellian life: leadership, its sacred and secular power bases, recruitment, and formalization over time; systems of social ranking and prestige; animal-totemic clan organization, kinship structures, and sodalities; gender roles, prestige, work load, and health; community organization in its tri-scalar residential, symbolic, and demographic forms; intercommunity alliances and changes in their strategies and expanses over time; and interregional travels for power questing, pilgrimage, healing, tutelage, and acquiring ritual knowledge. This book is useful to scholars, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in the workings and development of social complexity at local and interregional scales, recent theoretical developments in the anthropology of the topics listed above, the prehistory of eastern North America, its history of intellectual development, and Native American ritual, symbolism, and belief.
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.