A New History of the Jaketown Site

Summary

This is an abstract from the "*SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Recent findings from Poverty Point and contemporary sites are changing our understanding of the Late Archaic Southeast. Here, I summarize recent research at the Jaketown site in Mississippi and discuss how our findings fit within the broader context of the Poverty Point phenomenon. Chronostratigraphic data, interpreted using insights from American Indian scholars, support a new history of Jaketown. Our findings suggest that Jaketown underwent a dramatic transformation at ca. 3400 cal BP that included rapid earthwork construction and related rituals that are best understood as communal ritual performances meant to navigate a complex web of relations.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• *SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research

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Abstract Id(s): 39947.0