Weaving Stories And Histories: Strands Of Memories, Stories, And Dirt Archaeology
Author(s): Amanda Butler
Year: 2025
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
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Timothy R. Pauketat is a storyteller and a story maker. Throughout his distinguished career, Tim connects big histories with robust data through approachable storytelling. As a story maker, Tim entangled a rather large, and most often, very odd cast of characters who each have their own stories and histories with and about him. Amanda was drawn to Tim’s work first through his work as a story maker before learning more about his storytelling. But it was his push into Cahokia’s religious foundations by exploring the periphery that hooked her. For Jeff, his relationship spans states and decades, beginning as an undergraduate in New York. Tim inspired and encouraged our own investigations into Cahokia’s religious foundations, drawing from Indigenous theories and oral histories. Specifically, building on Tim’s and Thomas Emerson’s research connecting archaeological aspects of the origins of a Mississippian religious movement to ancestral Caddoan peoples. The people of Cahokia have many living descendants throughout much of the Plains, Southeast, and Midwest today. Our work draws from northern Caddoan, particularly Skidi Pawnee, histories as recounted to James Murie at the turn of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century to examine a broader Cahokian religious movement, connecting oral histories with dirt archaeology.
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Weaving Stories And Histories: Strands Of Memories, Stories, And Dirt Archaeology. Amanda Butler. Presented at The 90th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2025 ( tDAR id: 509722)
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Abstract Id(s): 50863