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1 online resource (365 pages) |
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Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series |
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Ripley P. Bullen series.
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| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Mississippian culture -- Southern States
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Mississippian culture -- Middle West
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Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites -- Middle West -- History
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Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites -- Southern States -- History
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Social archaeology -- Southern States
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Social archaeology -- Middle West
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Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Antiquities.
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Indians of North America -- Middle West -- Antiquities
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
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Antiquities
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Indians of North America -- Antiquities
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Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites
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Mississippian culture
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Social archaeology
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| SUBJECT |
Southern States -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125634
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Middle West -- Antiquities
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Middle West
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Southern States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sullivan, Lynne P.
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Mainfort, R. C. (Robert C.)
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| ISBN |
9780813042985 |
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0813042984 |
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9780813039619 |
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0813039614 |
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