Cahokia: A World Renewal Cult Heterarchy

Contents

Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables ix Preface xi 1. Introduction 1 2. The Deontic Ecological Perspective 31 3. Cultural Traditions and Prehistoric Archaeology 60 4. Deontic Ecology, Cultural Traditions, and Social Systems 85 5. Mortuary Practices, Cults, and Social Systems 105 6. The Sacred Maize Model and the Sponemann Site 137 7. The Early Terminal Late Woodland Period Sponemann Community Development 163 8. The Development of Terminal Late Woodland Period American Bottom Settlement: The Range Site 178 9. Cahokia as a World Renewal Cult Heterarchy 223 10. Cahokia as a Hierarchical Monistic Modular Polity: A Critical View 240 11. The “Rural” Settlement Pattern 261 12. Cahokian Mortuary Practices: The Media of World Renewal Ritual 296 13. Mound 72: Funerary Monument or World Renewal Icon? 325 14. Integrating the Floodplain and Upland Mortuary Records 373 15. The Terminal Late Woodland–Mississippian Transition: Alternative Accounts 403 16. The Organizational Principles of Multiple-Mound Locales 449 17. The Layout of Cahokia: The Material Media and Outcome of Factionalism 473 18. The History and Outcome of Factional Competition in Cahokia 505 Appendix A. Sponemann Site, Sponemann Phase, Sitewide Ubiquity, and Exclusivity Indices 529 Appendix B. Sponemann Site, Sponemann Phase, Community 3 Ubiquity, and Exclusivity Indices 539 Notes 547 Bibliography 573 Index 587 ...