Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Chronology, Content, Contest

✍ Scribed by Adam King (ed.)

Publisher: University Alabama Press
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 325
Series: Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

One of the most venerable concepts in Southeastern archaeology is that of the Southern Cult. The idea has its roots in the intensely productive decade (archaeologically) of the 1930s and is fundamentally tied to yet another venerable concept - Mississippian culture. The last comprehensive study of the melding of these two concepts into the term Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC) is more than two decades old, yet our understanding of the objects, themes, and artistic styles associated with the SECC have changed a great deal. This work presents new data and new ideas on the temporal and social contexts, artistic styles, and symbolic themes included in the complex. It also demonstrates that engraved shell gorgets, along with other SECC materials, were produced before A.D. 1400.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 16
1. The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: From Cult to Complex......Page 20
2. Prolegomena for the Analysis of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex......Page 34
3. Chronological Implications of the Bellows-Shaped Apron......Page 57
4. Mound 34: The Context for the Early Evidence of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex at Cahokia......Page 76
5. Shell Gorgets, Time, and the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex in Southeastern Tennessee......Page 107
6. Mound C and the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex in the History of the Etowah Site......Page 126
7. Connections Between the Etowah and Lake Jackson Chiefdoms: Patterns in theIconographic and Material Evidence......Page 153
8. An Assessment of Moundville Engraved “Cult” Designs from Potsherds......Page 170
9. Hightower Anthropomorphic Marine Shell Gorgets and Duck River Sword-Form Flint Bifaces: Middle Mississippian Ritual Regalia in the Southern Appalachians......Page 184
10. Mississippian Shell Gorgets in Regional Perspective......Page 204
11. Sex and the Southern Cult......Page 251
12. Whither SECC?......Page 9
References Cited......Page 278
Contributors......Page 308
Index......Page 312

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