Over 3,000 years ago, in what would be northern North America,
there was a cultural fluorescence. Native Americans were exchanging
materials and ideas over long distances, and their shamans were
overseeing treatment of the dead and conducting ceremonies to
insure entry into the spirit world. The author details how
archaeologists discovered their story.
The discovery, excavation, and interpretation of data on one of
the most significant ancient Native American archaeological sites
in the Northeast is chronicled. Research team leader Alan Leveillee
outlines the regional, environmental, and cultural contexts,
details the archaeological methodology, and synthesizes the results
of analyses of lithics, metals, flora, fauna, and soils, and
presents the on-site observations and interpretations of the Native
American representative of the team.
Focusing on the discovery and subsequent archaeological approach
to the first professionally excavated secondary burial complex in
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Leveillee demonstrates that
anthropological models enable consideration of how artifacts and
features reveal 3,500-year-old ideologies, ceremonies, and social
systems--the archaeology of ideas.
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