A Tale of Two Mounds: New Chronologies of Mississippian Movements and Mound Building in Southwestern Virginia, USA
Author(s): Catherine Doubles; Brandon Ritchison; Maureen Meyers
Year: 2024
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Mississippian expansions through the Cumberland Gap into the region has been explained as the seeking of new opportunities for elite lineages with roots to the west, particularly through the development and control of craft production and related exchange relationships on either side of the Appalachian Mountains. However, new chronologies for two primary Mississippian sites and new excavations at one, the Ely site, suggests that Mississippian movements into and out of this region were punctuated and driven more by historical context and contingent motivations among migrant groups. Here, we report the results of new radiocarbon dating and chronological modeling for Ely. With new, high-resolution temporal data we present a new narrative of Mississippian movements in southwestern Virginia and outline necessary future directions for research.
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A Tale of Two Mounds: New Chronologies of Mississippian Movements and Mound Building in Southwestern Virginia, USA. Catherine Doubles, Brandon Ritchison, Maureen Meyers. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 499647)
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Keywords
General
Dating Techniques
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Migration
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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): 39677.0