Late Mississippian period (Temporal Keyword)
1-3 (3 Records)
This research explores how people’s relationships with the spirits of the dead are embedded in political histories. It addresses the ways in which certain spirits were integral “inhabitants” of two social environments with disparate political traditions. Using the prehistoric mortuary record, this study investigate the spirits and their involvement in socio-political affairs in the Prehispanic American Southeast and Southwest. Foremost, this research constructs a framework to characterize...
Irene Mounds Mortuary Data: Body Treatment Raw Data and Multiple Correspondence Analysis Scores (2013)
In the dissertation titled "Interactions with the Incorporeal in the Mississippian and Ancestral Puebloan Worlds," the author analyzed the Irene Mortuary Data: Inhumation Body Treatment data set in an examination of the performance of mortuary ritual at Middle and Late Mississippian period settlement on the Georgia and South Carolina coast. The analysis of body treatment and the larger consideration of mortuary ritual were designed to understand the identities of the spirits of the dead in...
Irene Mounds Mortuary Data: Burial Facility Raw Data and Multiple Correspondence Analysis (2013)
Documentation of this data set in tDAR is in progress.