Pinson mounds : middle woodland ceremonialism in the midsouth /

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Author / Creator:	Mainfort, Robert C., 1948-
Imprint:	Fayetteville, Arkansas : University of Arkansas Press, [2013] ©2013
Description:	1 online resource (289 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Indians of North America -- Tennessee. Indians of North America. Pinson Mounds (Tenn.) Tennessee. Tennessee -- Pinson Mounds. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11348355

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ISBN:	9781610755276 1610755278 1299965083 9781299965089 9781557286390 1557286396
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 5, 2013).
Summary:	Located in West Tennessee about ten miles south of Jackson, the Pinson Mounds complex includes at least thirteen mounds, a geometric earthen embankment, and contemporary short-term occupation areas within an area of about four hundred acres. A unique feature of Pinson Mounds is the presence of five large, rectangular platform mounds from eight to seventy-two feet in height. Around AD 100, Pinson Mounds was a pilgrimage center that drew visitors from well beyond the local population and accommodated many distinct cultural groups and people of varied social stations. Stylistically nonlocal ceramics have been found in virtually every excavated locality, all together representing a large portion of the Southeast. Along with an overview of this important and unique mound complex, this book also provides a reassessment of roughly contemporary centers in the greater Midsouth and Lower Mississippi Valley and challenges past interpretations of the Hopewell phenomenon in the region.
Other form:	Print version: 9781557286390 1557286396

Table of Contents:

Pinson Mounds and Its Setting / Robert C. Mainfort Jr.
Antiquarians' Perspectives on Pinson Mounds 2.0 / Mary L. Kwas
Mapping Never-Never Land: An Examination of Pinson Mounds Cartography / Robert C. Mainfort Jr., Mary L. Kwas, and Andrew M. Mickelson
Western Ritual Precinct / Robert C. Mainfort Jr.
Central Ritual Precinct / Robert C. Mainfort Jr.
Eastern Ritual Precinct : The "Eastern Citadel" / Robert C. Mainfort Jr., Andrew M. Mickelson, and Robert Thunen
Calibrated Radiocarbon Chronology for Pinson Mounds and Related Sites / Robert C. Mainfort Jr. and Charles H. McNutt
Pinson Mounds and the Middle Woodland Period in the Midsouth and Lower Mississippi Valley / Robert C. Mainfort Jr. and Charles H. McNutt
Appendix 1 : Ceramics from Pinson Mounds
Appendix 2 : Politics and Prehistory : The Making of Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Area / Mary L. Kwas.

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