Mississippian Mortuary Practices: Beyond Hierarchy and the Representationist Perspective

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Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables xi Preface xiii 1. Mississippian Mortuary Practices and the Quest for Interpretation 1 Lynne P. Sullivan and Robert C. Mainfort Jr. 2. The Missing Persons in Mississippian Mortuaries 14 Timothy R. Pauketat 3. Cosmological Layouts of Secondary Burials as Political Instruments 30 James A. Brown 4. Multiple Groups, Overlapping Symbols, and the Creation of a Sacred Space at Etowah’s Mound C 54 Adam King 5. Social and Spatial Dimensions of Moundville Mortuary Practices 74 Gregory D. Wilson, Vincas P. Steponaitis, and Keith Jacobi 6. Aztalan Mortuary Practices Revisited 90 Lynne G. Goldstein 7. Mississippian Dimensions of a Fort Ancient Mortuary Program: The Development of Authority and Spatial Grammar at SunWatch Village 113 Robert A. Cook 8. Temporal Changes in Mortuary Behavior: Evidence from the Middle and Upper Nodena Sites, Arkansas 128 Robert C. Mainfort Jr. and Rita Fisher-Carroll 9. The Materialization of Status and Social Structure at Koger’s Island Cemetery , Alabama 145 Jon Bernard Marcoux 10. Pecan Point as the “Capital” of Pacaha: A Mortuary Perspective 174 Rita Fisher-Carroll and Robert C. Mainfort Jr. 11. Mound Construction and Community Changes within the Mississippian Community at Town Creek 195 Edmond A. Boudreaux III 12. Mortuary Practices and Cultural Identity at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century in Eastern Tennessee 234 Lynne P. Sullivan and Michaelyn S. Harle 13. The Mortuary Assemblage from the Holliston Mills Site, a Mississippian Town in Upper East Tennessee 250 Jay D. Franklin, Elizabeth K. Price, and Lucinda M. Langston 14. Caves as Mortuary Contexts in the Southeast 270 Jan F. Simek and Alan Cressler References Cited 293 Contributors 341 Index 345 ...