Archaeology and Ancient Religion in the American Midcontinent

ISBN-13: 9780817319960 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 368 str.

Brad H. Koldehoff; Timothy R. Pauketat; Susan M. Alt

Opis

Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North America

Spis treści

• List of Illustrations
• Preface by Brad H. Koldehoff and Timothy R. Pauketat
• Introduction: An Archaeology of Ancient Religious Practices by Brad H. Koldehoff and Timothy R. Pauketat
• Chapter 1. From Tubes to Platforms: Transformations in Early Smoking Pipes and Ancient Rituals by Brad H. Koldehoff and Kenneth B. Farnsworth
• Chapter 2. From Caches to Gatherings: The Relationality of Intentionally Deposited Objects in Mississippian Buildings by Melissa Baltus
• Chapter 3. Magic Plants and Mississippian Ritual by Kathryn E. Parker and Mary L. Simon
• Chapter 4. The People of Mound 72: Ritual and Death, Integration and Community Building at Early Cahokia by Kristin M. Hedman and Eve A. Hargrave
• Chapter 5. Putting Religion Ahead of Politics: Cahokian Origins as Viewed through Emerald’s Shrines by Susan M. Alt
• Chapter 6. A Landscape of Mounds: Community Ethnogenesis at Aztalan by John D. Richards and Thomas J. Zych
• Chapter 7. The Power of Place: Ancient Ritual Landscapes in Southwestern Illinois by Mark J. Wagner, Jonathan Remo, Kayeleigh Sharp, and Go Matsumoto
• Chapter 8. Ancient Skywatchers of the Eastern Woodlands by William F. Romain
• Contributors
• Index