Mississippian Mortuary Practices
Title | Mississippian Mortuary Practices PDF eBook |
Author | Lynne P. Sullivan |
Publisher | University Press of Florida |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2010-04-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0813042984 |
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
Title | Mississippian Mortuary Practices PDF eBook |
Author | Lynne P. Sullivan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Indians of North America |
ISBN | 9780813039619 |
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
Title | Mississippian Mortuary Practices PDF eBook |
Author | Lynne Goldstein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Excavations (Archaeology) |
ISBN | 9780942118087 |
Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis
Title | Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis PDF eBook |
Author | Lane Anderson Beck |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2013-11-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1489913106 |
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.
Mississippian Period Mortuary Practices in the Central Illinois River Valley
Title | Mississippian Period Mortuary Practices in the Central Illinois River Valley PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Strezewski |
Publisher | |
Pages | 932 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A Mortuary Analysis of the Vernon Paul Site (3CS25)
Title | A Mortuary Analysis of the Vernon Paul Site (3CS25) PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Nelson Gannon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Mortuary Patterns in West-Central Tennessee
Title | Mortuary Patterns in West-Central Tennessee PDF eBook |
Author | Brooke A. Wamsley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 171 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780438109605 |
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.