Pot Souls and Kill Holes: Weeden Island Ceramics from Palmetto Mound, Florida
Author(s): Mark Donop
Year: 2018
Summary
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.
Cite this Record
Pot Souls and Kill Holes: Weeden Island Ceramics from Palmetto Mound, Florida. Mark Donop. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 442957)
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Keywords
General
Ceramic Analysis
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Florida, Weeden Island, Effigies
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Ideology, Ontology, and Memory
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Woodland
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): 22689