Download or read book Mortuary Practices Social Status and Wealth at the Rhodes Site in Moundville Alabama written by Ted Clay Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rhodes residential area is part of the Moundville archaeological site (1TU500), a Mississippian civic and ceremonial mound center located on the Black Warrior River in present-day Tuscaloosa and Hale Counties of Alabama. It was excavated in the 1930s as two areas: the Rhodes site and the Upper Rhodes site. Because the Rhodes residential area was both a residential group and a cemetery, it is productive for examining area specific mortuary practices and how these practices compare to other residential group cemeteries at Moundville. Using mortuary analysis to further explore mortuary practices and social organization inform the research objectives that were set forth for this thesis. The major objectives of the project were as follows: 1) discern when in time the site was occupied and used as measured by ceramic samples; 2) interpret the social status and wealth of the people buried in the Rhodes residential area as measured by the quantity and diversity of artifacts in graves; and 3) compare the social status and wealth of the Rhodes residential area burial population to the social status of other residential burial populations at Moundville as measured by previous studies. The results demonstrate that a complex intertwining of ascribed and achieved status exists in Rhodes burials. More importantly, the results show that burial goods are not distributed the same way in every residential group. I conclude that access to wealth and status was specific to each residential kin group with a complex system of status based on birth and achievement. This research contributes to the ongoing evaluation of Mississippian and Moundville social organization and mortuary practices as well as ongoing studies of how social inequality was manifested in the past.
Download or read book Medicines At Moundville written by Jennifer Lynn Funkhouser and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research investigates expressions of group identity and social cohesion at the Moundville Archaeological site, a large Mississippian mound center in the Black Warrior River Valley (BWRV) of west-central Alabama. The mortuary program at Moundville has been extensively examined for evidence of status-based social differentiation, viewed from a perspective of hierarchical political organization. My analysis, a biocultural intrasite assessment of mortuary ritual at the center, investigated the construction and use of interment areas at Moundville from representative, spatial, and ontological perspectives. Data on interment location, composition, and associated accoutrements were examined from applied categories of medicine making including curing, hunting, renewal, and war. I argue that the ceremonial landscape was one deliberately crafted for community-centric renewal ritual, and later inundated with war medicine that necessitated a balance of esoteric and community ritual engagement including, but not limited to, the enactment of the mortuary program.
Download or read book Regional Approaches to Mortuary Analysis written by Lane A. Beck and published by Boom Koninklijke Uitgevers. This book was released on 1995-02-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Mortuary Practice in Sociohistorical and Archaeological Contexts written by Michael S. Crow and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical accounts of mortuary display during the 19th-century and evidence from archaeological investigations at historic cemeteries can contribute substantially to our understanding of related chronological and social-status issues. An inadequate understanding of mortuary practice in Texas circa 1821 to 1870 frustrates assessment of site chronology and status-related interpretations. While there are numerous studies of individual cemeteries, there is, as of yet, no synthesis of historical and archaeological data pertaining to mortuary practices in early Texas. In response to this deficiency, this thesis provides a synthesis of mortuary practices and the availability of related paraphernalia in Texas circa 1821-1870. Data from numerous cemeteries are compiled to establish a chronology for mortuary practices and to develop a seriation of select burial furnishings as an aid in assessing status-related variation in mortuary display. Results of the study, as gleaned from archival and archaeological data, indicate that mortuary display in mid-19th-century Texas is not so much a proxy of wealth, as it is a measure of popular cultural trends and economic contexts. These findings are used to reassess cemetery chronologies and status indices, including several interments at Matagorda Cemetery (1835-present), which serve as case studies.
Download or read book Time Before History written by H. Trawick Ward and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the state's prehistory and archaeological discoveries
Download or read book Archeological Investigations at Shiloh Indian Mounds National Historic Landmark 40HR7 written by David G. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bioarchaeology written by Jane E Buikstra and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core subject matter of bioarchaeology is the lives of past peoples, interpreted anthropologically. Human remains, contextualized archaeologically and historically, form the unit of study. Integrative and frequently inter-disciplinary, bioarchaeology draws methods and theoretical perspectives from across the sciences and the humanities. Bioarchaeology: The Contextual Study of Human Remains focuses upon the contemporary practice of bioarchaeology in North American contexts, its accomplishments and challenges. Appendixes, a glossary and 150 page bibliography make the volume extremely useful for research and teaching.
Download or read book The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama written by Ethel Armes and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pottery of Marajo Island Brazil written by Helen C. Palmatary and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1949 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study represents the culmination of some 15 years of research in the field of Amazonian archeology. Ilha de Marajo, as the Brazilians call it, has been described as resting in the mouth of the Amazon like an egg in that of a serpent. In reality, Marajo is part of an archipelago. Contents of this study of the pottery of Marajo Island, Brazil: (1) Introduction; (2) The Island: Notes on geography and climate; Historical notes; Archeological sites; (3) The Pottery: Stylistic Analysis: Outline of Classification; Wares; Miscellaneous studies of parts of the pottery; Correlations: Elements of form and decoration; Correlation chart; Summary; Catalog numbers for specimens illustrated; and Bibliography. Illustrations. This is a print on demand publication.
Download or read book Perspectives on the Archaeology of Pipes Tobacco and other Smoke Plants in the Ancient Americas written by Elizabeth Anne Bollwerk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-20 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the most recent archaeological, historical, and ethnographic research that challenges simplistic perceptions of Native smoking and explores a wide variety of questions regarding smoking plants and pipe forms from throughout North America and parts of South America. By broadening research questions, utilizing new analytical methods, and applying interdisciplinary interpretative frameworks, this volume offers new insights into a diverse array of perspectives on smoke plants and pipes.
Download or read book An Encyclopedia of World History written by William L. Langer and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cahokia written by Timothy R. Pauketat and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization located in modern day Illinois near St. Louis While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketat brings vividly to life in this groundbreaking book. Almost a thousand years ago, a city flourished along the Mississippi River near what is now St. Louis. Built around a sprawling central plaza and known as Cahokia, the site has drawn the attention of generations of archaeologists, whose work produced evidence of complex celestial timepieces, feasts big enough to feed thousands, and disturbing signs of human sacrifice. Drawing on these fascinating finds, Cahokia presents a lively and astonishing narrative of prehistoric America.
Download or read book Genealogy of the Lewis Family in America written by William Terrell Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly a record of some of the descendants of John Lewis. He was born in Donegal County, Ireland 1678 to Andrew Lewis and Mary Calhoun. He married Margaret Lynn. He died in Virginia 1 Feb 1762. They were the parents of seven children.
Download or read book American Indian Religious Traditions written by Suzanne J. Crawford O'Brien and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2005-06-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book The Woodland Southeast written by David G. Anderson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2002-05-10 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States. The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research over the past 25 years. Researchers have learned that in this approximately 2000-year era the peoples of the Southeast experienced increasing sedentism, population growth, and organizational complexity. At the beginning of the period, people are assumed to have been living in small groups, loosely bound by collective burial rituals. But by the first millennium A.D., some parts of the region had densely packed civic ceremonial centers ruled by hereditary elites. Maize was now the primary food crop. Perhaps most importantly, the ancient animal-focused and hunting-based religion and cosmology were being replaced by solar and warfare iconography, consistent with societies dependent on agriculture, and whose elites were increasingly in competition with one another. This volume synthesizes the research on what happened during this era and how these changes came about while analyzing the period's archaeological record. In gathering the latest research available on the Woodland Period, the editors have included contributions from the full range of specialists working in the field, highlighted major themes, and directed readers to the proper primary sources. Of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists, both professional and amateur, this will be a valuable reference work essential to understanding the Woodland Period in the Southeast.
Download or read book King written by David Hally and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2008-09-21 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of Spanish contact in AD 1540, the Mississippian inhabitants in north-western Georgia and adjacent portions of Alabama and Tennessee were organized into a number of chiefdoms distributed along the Coosa and Tennessee rivers and their major tributaries. This book is about one such town, known to archaeologists as the King site.
Download or read book The Catawba Nation written by Charles M. Hudson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this reconstruction of the history of the Catawba Indians, Charles M. Hudson first considers the "external history" of the Catawba peoples, based on reports by such outsiders as explorers, missionaries, and government officials. In these chapters, the author examines the social and cultural classification of the Catawbas at the time of early contact with the white men, their later position in a plural southern society and gradual assimilation into the larger national society, and finally the termination of their status as Indians with the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This external history is then contrasted with the folk history of the Catawbas, the past as they believe it to have been. Hudson looks at the way this legendary history parallels documentary history, and shows how the Catawbas have used their folk remembrances to resist or adapt to the growing pressures of the outside world.
