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Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland (Hardcover): Vincas P. Steponaitis, C. Margaret Scarry Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland (Hardcover)
Vincas P. Steponaitis, C. Margaret Scarry
R1,988 Discovery Miles 19 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 temples, 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 and ritual practices both at the mound center and in the hinterland, providing an up-to-date and refreshingly nuanced interpretation of Mississippian culture.

Ceramics, Chronology and Community Patterns - An Archaeological Study at Moundville (Paperback): Vincas P. Steponaitis Ceramics, Chronology and Community Patterns - An Archaeological Study at Moundville (Paperback)
Vincas P. Steponaitis; Adapted by Stuart Struever
R3,954 Discovery Miles 39 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book should prove useful to scholars in a variety of ways, for it deals with culture-historical, methodological, and evolutionary issues from shedding light on Moundville's development. In addressing matters of culture history, the study presents a detailed and well documented Mississippian chronology. It systemises and describes the late prehistoric ceramics from an important site, providing a benchmark that can be used in future studies of trade and stylistic interaction. And, perhaps even more importantly, it synthesizes the available information on Moundville's development, taking into account settlement, subsistence, and mortuary evidence.

Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms - Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography (Paperback): F. Kent Reilly, James F. Garber Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms - Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography (Paperback)
F. Kent Reilly, James F. Garber; Introduction by Vincas P. Steponaitis
R725 Discovery Miles 7 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Between AD 900-1600, the native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and executed one of the greatest artistic traditions of the Precolumbian Americas. Created in the media of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood, and incised or carved with a complex set of symbols and motifs, this seven-hundred-year-old artistic tradition functioned within a multiethnic landscape centered on communities dominated by earthen mounds and plazas. Previous researchers have referred to this material as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC).

This groundbreaking volume brings together ten essays by leading anthropologists, archaeologists, and art historians, who analyze the iconography of Mississippian art in order to reconstruct the ritual activities, cosmological vision, and ideology of these ancient precursors to several groups of contemporary Native Americans. Significantly, the authors correlate archaeological, ethnographic, and art historical data that illustrate the stylistic differences within Mississippian art as well as the numerous changes that occur through time. The research also demonstrates the inadequacy of the SECC label, since Mississippian art is not limited to the Southeast and reflects stylistic changes over time among several linked but distinct religious traditions. The term Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS) more adequately describes the corpus of this Mississippian art. Most important, the authors illustrate the overarching nature of the ancient Native American religious system, as a creation unique to the native American cultures of the eastern United States.

Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland (Paperback): Vincas P. Steponaitis, C. Margaret Scarry Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland (Paperback)
Vincas P. Steponaitis, C. Margaret Scarry
R912 Discovery Miles 9 120 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A much-needed synthesis of the rapidly expanding archaeological work that has taken place in the Moundville region over the past two decades, this volume presents the results of multifaceted research and new excavations.

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