Native American monuments and landscape in the Lower Missisippi Valley

JM Mehta - 2015 - search.proquest.com
This project considers the development of the cultural landscape of Native American
chiefdoms in the Yazoo Basin of northwestern Mississippi. Chronicles written by certain …

Identifying ritual structures in the archaeological record: A Maritime Woodland period sweathouse from Nova Scotia, Canada

MG Hrynick, MW Betts - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2014 - Elsevier
Hunter–gatherer religious practices often require specialized construction of ritual structures
in comparison to domestic dwellings. Specialized placement of the structure itself may be …

Afterimages of Kincaid Mounds

CCOB Pursell - 2016 - search.proquest.com
This research will address how the monumental organization of Kincaid Mounds was put
together through time. The measurable variability in the potential performative presentation …

Mississippian craft production in the Yazoo basin: thin-section analysis of a Mississippian structure floor on the summit of mound D at the Carson site

JM Mehta, D Abbott, CD Pevny - Journal of Archaeological Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Mississippian Southeast, little is known about the economy of how craft goods
were produced. Archeologists do understand to a certain degree the organization of …

An Investigation of the Origins of Variation in Perishable Architecture at Jonathan Creek

S Schroeder - Southeastern Archaeology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Jonathan Creek site in Kentucky was excavated in the early 1940s in an effort
to uncover the community plan of an entire Mississippian town and mound center. Although …