Florida, Weeden Island, Effigies (Other Keyword)
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Pot Souls and Kill Holes: Weeden Island Ceramics from Palmetto Mound, Florida (2018)
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Most of the ceramic vessels interred in Palmetto Mound (8LV2), were "killed" for reasons that are not adequately explained. These include biomorphic ceramic effigy vessels that depict or embody living things, or their characteristics. Using ethnohistorical and archaeological data, I suggest that the ceramics vessels in Palmetto Mound were considered to be animate, non-human persons with souls that were ritually killed, dismembered, and interred in the mound.