Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland (eBook)

Vincas P. Steponaitis, C. Margaret Scarry (Herausgeber)

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2019
342 Seiten
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-6534-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A much-needed synthesis of the rapidly expanding archaeological work that has taken place in the Moundville region over the past two decades, this volume presents the results of multifaceted research and new excavations.

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Moundville, near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is one of the largest pre-Columbian mound sites in North America. Comprising twenty-nine earthen mounds that were once platforms for chiefly residences and public buildings, Moundville was a major political and religious center for the people living in its region and for the wider Mississippian world.



A much-needed synthesis of the rapidly expanding archaeological work that has taken place in the region over the past two decades, this volume presents the results of multifaceted research and new excavations. Using models deeply rooted in local ethnohistory, it ties Moundville and its people more closely than before to the ethnography of native southerners and emphasizes the role of social memory, iconography, and ritual practices both at the mound center and in the rural hinterland, providing an up-to-date and refreshingly nuanced interpretation of Mississippian culture.



A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

Autor

Vincas P. Steponaitis, William E. Leuchtenburg Distinguished Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology and secretary of the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is coeditor of Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom. C. Margaret Scarry, professor of anthropology and director of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the editor of Foraging and Farming in the Eastern Woodlands.

Inhalt

Contents

1. New Directions in Moundville Research I

Vincas P. Steponaitis and C. Margaret Scarry

2. Social Archaeology of Monumental Spaces at Moundville 23

Vernon James Knight Jr.

3. Long-Term Trends in the Making and Materialization of Social

Groups at Moundville 44

Gregory D. Wilson

4. Mound X and Selective Forgetting at Early Moundville 54

John H. Blitz

5. Was There a Moundville Medicine Society? 74

George E. Lankford

6. The Distribution of Hemphill-Style Artifacts at Moundville 99

Erin E. Phillips

7. Moundville Palettes- Prestige Goods or Inalienable Possessions? 121

Vincas P. Steponaitis

8. Rural Settlement in the Black Warrior Valley 134

Scott W. Hammerstedt, Mintey D. Maxham, and Jennifer L. Myer

9. Late Prehistoric Social Practice in the Rural Black Warrior River Valley 162

John F. Scarry, H. Edwin Jackson, and Mintey D. Maxham

10. Domestic and Ritual Meals in the Moundville Chiefdom 187

H. Edwin Jackson, C. Margaret Scarry, and Susan Scott

11. Crafting Moundville Palettes 234

Jera R. Davis

12. Moundville as a Ceremonial Ground 255

C. Margaret Scarry and Vincas P. Steponaitis

List of Contributors 301

Index 305

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
• Zusatzinfo: 46 b/w illus, 24 maps, 29 tables, notes, bibliography, index
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: Mississippian world • mound sites • moundville • North America • pre-columbian • Tuscaloosa, Alabama
• ISBN-10: 0-8130-6534-8 / 0813065348
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8130-6534-2 / 9780813065342