| Description |
1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Contents |
Pinson Mounds and Its Setting / Robert C. Mainfort Jr. -- Antiquarians' Perspectives on Pinson Mounds 2.0 / Mary L. Kwas -- Mapping Never-Never Land: An Examination of Pinson Mounds Cartography / Robert C. Mainfort Jr., Mary L. Kwas, and Andrew M. Mickelson -- Western Ritual Precinct / Robert C. Mainfort Jr. -- Central Ritual Precinct / Robert C. Mainfort Jr. -- Eastern Ritual Precinct : The "Eastern Citadel" / Robert C. Mainfort Jr., Andrew M. Mickelson, and Robert Thunen -- Calibrated Radiocarbon Chronology for Pinson Mounds and Related Sites / Robert C. Mainfort Jr. and Charles H. McNutt -- Pinson Mounds and the Middle Woodland Period in the Midsouth and Lower Mississippi Valley / Robert C. Mainfort Jr. and Charles H. McNutt -- Appendix 1 : Ceramics from Pinson Mounds -- Appendix 2 : Politics and Prehistory : The Making of Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Area / Mary L. Kwas |
| Summary |
Located in West Tennessee about ten miles south of Jackson, the Pinson Mounds complex includes at least thirteen mounds, a geometric earthen embankment, and contemporary short-term occupation areas within an area of about four hundred acres. A unique feature of Pinson Mounds is the presence of five large, rectangular platform mounds from eight to seventy-two feet in height. Around AD 100, Pinson Mounds was a pilgrimage center that drew visitors from well beyond the local population and accommodated many distinct cultural groups and people of varied social stations. Stylistically nonlocal ceramics have been found in virtually every excavated locality, all together representing a large portion of the Southeast. Along with an overview of this important and unique mound complex, this book also provides a reassessment of roughly contemporary centers in the greater Midsouth and Lower Mississippi Valley and challenges past interpretations of the Hopewell phenomenon in the region |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 5, 2013) |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Tennessee.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Indians of North America
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| SUBJECT |
Pinson Mounds (Tenn.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85102276
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| Subject |
Tennessee
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Tennessee -- Pinson Mounds
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781610755276 |
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1610755278 |
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