Creating a Frontier Community: Ceremony and Political Elites in a Middle Appalachian Mississippian Village
Author(s): Taylor Greene
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.
Carter Robinson (44LE10) is a Mississippian mound site in use from the mid-14th century to the mid-15th century in the Appalachian Mountains of modern-day Southwest Virginia. This paper examines the roles of potential political elites within the community, first examining the artifact assemblage associated with the only excavated multi-phase structure at the site, and then comparing recent radiocarbon dating from this structure to previously conducted radiocarbon dating at the site. These data are used to suggest the relationship the inhabitants of the multi-phase structure might have held with the wider community they lived in.
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Creating a Frontier Community: Ceremony and Political Elites in a Middle Appalachian Mississippian Village. Taylor Greene. Presented at The 89th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2024 ( tDAR id: 499777)
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Keywords
General
Archaeometry & Materials Analysis
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Community Integration
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Mississippian
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Power Relations and Inequality
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): 40019.0