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Author : Tim S. Mistovich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UGA:32108022254349
Author : Edmond A. Boudreaux
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780817354558
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.
Author : John T. Penman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Archaeological surveying
ISBN : UOM:39015017943815
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030186225
Author : David J. Hally
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820334929
From 1933 to 1941, Macon was the site of the largest archaeological excavation ever undertaken in Georgia and one of the most significant archaeological projects to be initiated by the federal government during the depression. The project was administered by the National Park Service and funded at times by such government programs as the Works Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, and Civil Works Administration. At its peak in 1955, more than eight hundred laborers were employed in more than a dozen separate excavations of prehistoric mounds and villages. The best-known excavations were conducted at the Macon Plateau site, the area President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed as the Ocmulgee National Monument in 1936. Although a wealth of material was recovered from the site in the 1930s, little provision was made for analyzing and reporting it. Consequently, much information is still unpublished. The sixteen essays in this volume were presented at a symposium to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Ocmulgee National Monument. The symposium provided archaeologists with an opportunity to update the work begun a half-century before and to bring it into the larger context of southeastern history and general advances in archaeological research and methodology. Among the topics discussed are platform mounds, settlement patterns, agronomic practices, earth lodges, human skeletal remains, Macon Plateau culture origins, relations of site inhabitants with other aboriginal societies and Europeans, and the challenges of administering excavations and park development.
Author : Philip Phillips,James A. Ford,James B. Griffin
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817350222
Documents prehistoric human occupation along the lower reaches of the Mississippi River A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication The Lower Mississippi Survey was initiated in 1939 as a joint undertaking of three institutions: the School of Geology at Louisiana State University, the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, and the Peabody Museum at Harvard. Fieldwork began in 1940 but was halted during the war years. When fieldwork resumed in 1946, James Ford had joined the American Museum of Natural History, which assumed co-sponsorship from LSU. The purpose of the Lower Mississippi Survey (LMS)—a term used to identify both the fieldwork and the resultant volume—was to investigate the northern two-thirds of the alluvial valley of the lower Mississippi River, roughly from the mouth of the Ohio River to Vicksburg. This area covers about 350 miles and had been long regarded as one of the principal hot spots in eastern North American archaeology. Phillips, Ford, and Griffin surveyed over 12,000 square miles, identified 382 archaeological sites, and analyzed over 350,000 potsherds in order to define ceramic typologies and establish a number of cultural periods. The commitment of these scholars to developing a coherent understanding of the archaeology of the area, as well as their mutual respect for one another, enabled the publication of what is now commonly considered the bible of southeastern archaeology. Originally published in 1951 as volume 25 of the Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, this work has been long out of print. Because Stephen Williams served for 35 years as director of the LMS at Harvard, succeeding Phillips, and was closely associated with the authors during their lifetimes, his new introduction offers a broad overview of the work’s influence and value, placing it in a contemporary context.
Author : Eugene M. Futato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Archaeological surveying
ISBN : WISC:89096129432
Author : Alabama Museum of Natural History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Natural history
ISBN : OSU:32435024129223
Author : Judith Ann Bense,Robert Steven Grumet,Eugene M. Futato,University of Alabama. Office of Archaeological Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Alabama
ISBN : WISC:89058382201
Author : Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Archives
ISBN : WISC:89067539379
Author : Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Archives
ISBN : UFL:31262076964047
Report for 1936/37 includes the Biennial report of the State Librarian, 1935/37; and the Sixth biennial report of the State Library Commission, 1936/37.
Author : Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Archives
ISBN : UIUC:30112028102199
Author : Joffre Lanning Coe,Thomas D. Burke
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047490878
Town Creek Indian Mound: A Native American Legacy
Author : Herbert T. Boschung (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fishes
ISBN : UOM:39015033139091
Author : Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Archives
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026549761