Creating Community at Singer-Move: Feasting and Craft Production in a Residential Precinct
Author(s): Adam Coker; Kimberly Swisher; Jennifer Birch; Stefan Brannan; Tiffany Yue
Year: 2018
Summary
During its estimated 400-year history of occupation, Singer-Moye was a focal point of prehistoric settlement and socio-political development in the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley of southwestern Georgia (USA). Between A.D. 1300 and 1400, the site was a focus of regional settlement aggregation that included the expansion of the site’s monumental core and the deposition of a dense occupational midden surrounding that core. In 2016 and 2017, excavations at Singer-Moye were focused on investigating geophysical anomalies in an area adjunct to Mounds A and H at the site, in what has been interpreted as an elite or ceremonial precinct. This poster discusses the results of those investigations and presents interpretations of activity patterns in a residential portion of the precinct during a pivotal period in the site’s occupational history, including evidence for feasting and specialized craft production.
Cite this Record
Creating Community at Singer-Move: Feasting and Craft Production in a Residential Precinct. Adam Coker, Kimberly Swisher, Jennifer Birch, Stefan Brannan, Tiffany Yue. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 442936)
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Keywords
General
Ceramic Analysis
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Craft Production
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Mississippian
Geographic Keywords
North America: Southeast United States
Spatial Coverage
min long: -93.735; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -73.389; max lat: 39.572 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 20902