Download or read book Town Creek Indian Mound written by Joffre Lanning Coe and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-30 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The temple mound and mortuary at Town Creek, in Montgomery County, is one of the few surviving earthen mounds built by prehistoric Native Americans in North Carolina. It has been recognized as an important archaeological site for almost sixty years and, as a state historic site, has become a popular destination for the public. This book is Joffre Coe's illustrated chronicle of the archaeological research conducted at Town Creek, a project with which Coe has been intimately involved for more than fifty years, since its inception as a WPA program in 1937. Written for visitors as well as for scholars, Town Creek Indian Mound provides an overview of the site and the archaeological techniques pioneered there, surveys the history of the excavations, and features more than 200 photographs and maps. The book carefully reconstructs the archaeological record, including plant and animal remains, pottery sherds, stone tools, and clay ornaments. In a concluding interpretive section, Coe reflects on what Town Creek and its artifacts tell us about this prehistoric Native American society. Originally published in 1995. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Download or read book Town Creek Indian Mound written by Linda Reeves and published by . This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Town Creek Indian Mound written by Linda Reeves and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Town Creek Indian Mound written by North Carolina. Historic Sites Section and published by . This book was released on 1978* with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Town Creek Indian Mound written by North Carolina. Historic Sites Division and published by . This book was released on 1962* with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Town Creek Indian Mound written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Town Creek Indian Mound written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Town Creek Indian Mound written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Town Creek Indian Mound Guidebook written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Astro archeology at Town Creek Indian Mound written by Vance R. Tiede and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence of astronomical orientation at Town Creek Indian Mound, a prehistoric Native American archaeological site located near Mount Gilead, North Carolina.
Download or read book Biological and Cultural Stress in a South Appalachian Mississippian Settlement Town Creek Indian Mound Mt Gilead NC written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Town Creek Indian Mound was an important ceremonial center of the Pee Dee culture for approximately 200 years (A.D. 1150 - 1400) before it was abandoned. Biological indicators, such as the prevalence of diseases like cribra orbitalia, and decreases in stature attainment from previous generations will be presented. Often site abandonment will also be preceded by increases in cultural stress, such as trauma, as the population reacts to worsening conditions. These three indicators are used to determine if the Pee Dee population living at Town Creek was, in fact, experiencing biological or cultural stress at the end of their habitation of the site. Comparisons were made between an early habitation phase (Teal/Early Town Creek period) and a late phase (Late Town Creek/Leak period). MANOVA statistical analysis found that, of the long bone length measurements, only the female humerus was found to be variable between time phases, with the bone becoming longer in the late phase. Neither cribra nor trauma increased significantly in the late phase. Drought reconstructions have shown that, while the area has experienced extended periods of mild drought and even one intense drought, these periods corresponded with increased site activity, including the construction of monumental architecture. All skeletal indicators and contextual climate reconstructions point to a stable environment and associated population. Issues with nutrition or violence within the culture did not precede the Pee Dee's abandonment of Town Creek, so the cause must lie with other unknown factors.
Download or read book American Indian Mounds written by Timothy Whittaker and published by Timothy Whittaker. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a comprehensive list of North American Indian Mounds.
Download or read book The Kratz Creek Mound Group written by Samuel Alfred Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spatial Analysis of Ceramic in the Plow Zone at Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site written by Marianne McGlinn and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ceramics are used in archaeological research to determine the spatial and temporal distributions of people in the past. Ceramics were used for cooking and serving food for households. Ceramics changed over time and can be used to date different archaeological occupations. This research examines the spatial distribution of several temporally significant types of ceramics at Town Creek, an archaeological site in North Carolina's Piedmont. This research used the ceramic collection from the plow zone at Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site (31Mg3) to inform about site usage through time. Although the site was intermittently occupied for over 10,000 years. Ceramics first occur at the start of the Woodland period about 2000 years ago. Using existing artifact collections curated by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this research uses ceramics collected from the plow zone to conduct a spatial analysis across the site to address the temporal and spatial use of the site. In particular, this research will look at the distribution of the different ceramic groupings to determine the different time periods that the site was occupied during the last 2000 years and the areas of the site those people used. This will allow for a better understanding of site function and site usage over time.
Download or read book Archeology of Mississippi written by Calvin Smith Brown and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Indian Places written by Frances H. Kennedy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to 366 places that are significant to American Indians and open to the public. Organized geographically, the guide includes location information, maps, and suggestions for further reading about the sites.
Download or read book The Archaeology of Town Creek written by Edmond A. Boudreaux and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2007-11-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides new insights into the community pattern and leadership roles at a major Mississippian archaeological site The sequence of change for public architecture during the Mississippian period may reflect a centralization of political power through time. In the research presented here, some of the community-level assumptions attributed to the appearance of Mississippian mounds are tested against the archaeological record of the Town Creek site—the remains of a town located on the northeastern edge of the Mississippian culture area. In particular, the archaeological record of Town Creek is used to test the idea that the appearance of Mississippian platform mounds was accompanied by the centralization of political authority in the hands of a powerful chief. A compelling argument has been made that mounds were the seats and symbols of political power within Mississippian societies. While platform mounds have been a part of Southeastern Native American communities since at least 100 B.C., around A.D. 400 leaders in some communities began to place their houses on top of earthen mounds—an act that has been interpreted as an attempt to legitimize personal authority by a community leader through the appropriation of a powerful, traditional, community-oriented symbol. Platform mounds at a number of sites were preceded by a distinctive type of building called an earthlodge—a structure with earth-embanked walls and an entrance indicated by short, parallel wall trenches. Earthlodges in the Southeast have been interpreted as places where a council of community leaders came together to make decisions based on consensus. In contrast to the more inclusive function proposed for premound earthlodges, it has been argued that access to the buildings on top of Mississippian platform mounds was limited to a much smaller subset of the community. If this was the case and if ground-level earthlodges were more accessible than mound-summit structures, then access to leaders and leadership may have decreased through time. Excavations at the Town Creek archaeological site have shown that the public architecture there follows the earthlodge-to-platform mound sequence that is well known across the South Appalachian subarea of the Mississippian world. The clear changes in public architecture coupled with the extensive exposure of the site's domestic sphere make Town Creek an excellent case study for examining the relationship among changes in public architecture and leadership within a Mississippian society.
