Mississippian Mortuary Practices: Beyond Hierarchy and the Representationist Perspective

List of Figures

Figures 1.1. Locations of Archaeological Sites Discussed in this Volume 2 2.1. Plan Map of Cahokia and Mound 66 20 2.2. Feature 205 in Cahokia’s Mound 72 23 3.1. Fatherland Site Mound C Shrine Summit 35 3.2. Section Through the North End of the Great Mortuary 37 3.3. Great Mortuary Plan with Rows 41 3.4. Drawing of the Outer Surface of Craig B Cup 229 47 3.5. Spiro Mound Group as a Solsticial Organization 49 3.6. Detail of Burials at Cahokia Mound 72 Submound 1 50 4.1. Plan Map of the Etowah Site 55 4.2. Burials Excavated by Larson at Mound C 56 4.3. Mound C Construction Stages 58 4.4. Late Wilbanks Burial Groupings 61 4.5. Creek Square Ground Structure 62 4.6. Northern Georgia Mississippian House Floor Plan 63 4.7. Centering Motifs in Engraved Shell and Complicated Stamped Pottery 64 4.8. The Lobe Burials at Mound C 67 4.9. Profile Showing the Relationship of the Lobe Burials 68 5.1. The Moundville Site Featuring the 1939 and 1940 Roadway Excavations 76 5.2. Selected Mississippian Cemeteries from the Moundville Roadway Excavations 78 5.3. Phase-Based Chronology for the Black Warrior Valley Featuring Diachronic Changes in the Frequency of Burials for the Moundville Roadway Excavations and the Entire Moundville Site 79 5.4. Sheratt Diagram for the Roadway Excavations at the Moundville Site 82 5.5. Number of Artifacts per Individual Burial for the Roadway Excavations at the Moundville Site 84 5.6. Burial RW 2884, Man over 50 years Old Located in the Center of a Cemetery in Moundville Roadway Block 48+65 85 5.7. Moundville II–III Cemetery Superimposing Moundville I Residential Group (Roadway blocks 48+00 to 49+00) 86 viii Figures 5.8. Detail of the Moundville II–III Cemetery Shown in Figure 5.7 (Roadway Blocks 48+00 to 48+50) 87 5.9. Spatial Comparison of Mississippian Structure Floor Areas to Burial Clusters in the Moundville Roadway 88 6.1. Location of the Aztalan Site in the State of Wisconsin 91 6.2. Increase A. Lapham’s Detailed 1855 Map of the Aztalan Site 92 6.3. An Outline Map of General Activity Areas at Aztalan Indicating Michigan State University’s 2000 and 2001 Research Activity Locations 100 6.4. Cross-Sections of Two of the Large Pits in the Sculptuary Area 102 6.5. The Sculptuary as Seen from the Ground 103 6.6. Map of the Sculptuary Location, Outline of the Feature, and Michigan State University Excavations in Relation to the Northwest Platform Mound 105 6.7. Location of Articulated Burials, Nonarticulated Human Remains, and Structures at the Aztalan Site 107 7.1. Study Region for the SunWatch Site 115 7.2. SunWatch Site Map Highlighting Burial Group Locations and Solar Alignments 118 7.3. Photo of the Complete Whelk Shell from SunWatch 119 7.4. SunWatch Burial Cluster Locations 120 7.5. Mortuary and Lithic Production Relationships Between the South and West Portions of SunWatch 122 7.6. Reconstructions of SunWatch and a Mississippian Village 125 8.1. Location of the Middle and Upper Nodena and Nearby Sites 129 9.1. Areal Map Showing the Location of the Koger’s Island Cemetery 146 9.2. Plan Map Depicting the Excavated Burials and Features at the Koger’s Island Cemetery 147 9.3. NAT Analysis at Koger’s Island 161 9.4. Age and Sex Distribution of Selected Artifact Types from the Koger’s Island Cemetery 162 9.5. Plan Map Depicting the Cemetery Row Structure Put Forth by Peebles 164 9.6. Plan Map Depicting Koger’s Island Cemetery Sections Resulting from Simple Visual Inspection and Cluster Analysis 165 9.7. Plot Depicting the Results of a K-Means Cluster Analysis (3–Cluster Solution) Conducted on the Spatial Location of Burials at the Koger’s Island Cemetery 166 9.8. Comparison of Age-Group Frequencies in the Three Cemetery Sections at the Koger’s Island Cemetery 167 Figures ix 9.9. Comparison of Sex Frequencies in the Three Cemetery Sections at the Koger’s Island Cemetery 167 9.10. Comparison of Burial Type Frequencies in the Three Cemetery Sections at the Koger’s Island Cemetery 168 9.11. Comparison of the Presence of Funerary Objects in the Three Cemetery Sections at the Koger’s Island Cemetery 168 9.12...