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Author : Charles H. Nash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UOM:39015017442719
Author : Mark D. Elson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816518416
For more than a hundred years, archaeologists have investigated the function of earthen platform mounds in the American Southwest. Built by the Hohokam groups between A.D. 1150 and 1350, these mounds are among the few monumental structures in the Southwest, yet their use and the nature of the groups who built them remain unresolved. Mark Elson now takes a fresh look at these monuments and sheds new light on their significance. He goes beyond previous studies by examining platform mound function and social group organization through a cross-cultural study of historic mound-using groups in the Pacific Ocean region, South America, and the southeastern United States. Using this information, he develops a number of important new generalizations about how people used mounds. Elson then applies these data to the study of a prehistoric settlement system in the eastern Tonto Basin of Arizona that contained five platform mounds. He argues that the mounds were used variously as residences and ceremonial facilities by competing descent groups and were an indication of hereditary leadership. They were important in group integration and resource management; after abandonment they served as ancestral shrines. Elson's study provides a fresh approach to an old puzzle and offers new suggestions regarding variability among Hohokam populations. Its innovative use of comparative data and analyses enriches our understanding of both Hohokam culture and other ancient societies.
Author : Vernon James Knight,H. Edwin Jackson,Susan L. Scott
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780817316877
This work is a state-of-the-art, data-rich study of excavations undertaken at the Moundville site in west central Alabama, one of the largest and most complex of the mound sites of pre-contact North America.
Author : Jennifer L. Horwath Burnham,Donald Lee Johnson
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813724904
Papers mostly from Geological Society of America Annual Meetings and field trips held in Houston, Texas, October 4-9, 2008.
Author : Cyrus Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UOM:39015028731845
Author : Cyrus Thomas
Publisher : Hayriver Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Mounds
ISBN : 0977831663
Author : Paul D. Welch
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817352530
One hundred years of archaeological excavations at an important American landmark, the Shiloh Indian Mounds archaeological site, a National Historic Landmark The Shiloh Indian Mounds archaeological site, a National Historic Landmark, is a late prehistoric community within the boundaries of the Shiloh National Military Park on the banks of the Tennessee River, where one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War was fought in April 1862. Dating between AD 1000 and 1450, the archaeological site includes at least eight mounds and more than 100 houses. It is unique in that the land has never been plowed, so visitors can walk around the area and find the collapsed remains of 800-year-old houses and the 900-meter-long palisade with bastions that protected the village in prehistoric times. Although its location within a National Park boundary has protected the area from the recent ravages of man, riverbank erosion began to undermine the site in the 1970s. In the mid-1990s, Paul Welch began a four-year investigation culminating in a comprehensive report to the National Park Service on the Shiloh Indian Mounds. These published findings confirm that the Shiloh site was one of at least fourteen Mississippian mound sites located within a 50 km area and that Shiloh was abandoned in approximately AD 1450. It also establishes other parameters for the Shiloh archaeological phase. This current volume is intended to make information about the first 100 years of excavations at the Shiloh site available to the archaeological community.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UOM:39015003697680
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNLB230092910
Author : William Henry Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Indian textile fabrics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044041971102
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : America
ISBN : HARVARD:32044089514566
Author : David G. Anderson,John E. Cornelison,Sarah C. Sherwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050648919
Author : Kit W Wesler
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817310646
CD-ROM contains: Site maps -- Database files -- Plats of excavations -- Artifact descriptions -- Photographs.
Author : Vincas P. Steponaitis,C. Margaret Scarry
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813065342
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
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Science
ISBN : NYPL:33433071595676