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Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island : complexity, ritual, and pottery /

"Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island further illuminates an Indigenous Late Woodland (ca. AD 200-900) mound-and-village community in northern Florida that was first excavated in the late 1970s. Since then, some artifacts received additional analyses, and the topic of prechiefdom societies has be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rice, Prudence M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2024]
Series:Archaeology of the American South.
Subjects:
McKeithen Site (Fla.)
Weeden Island culture.
Indian pottery > Florida > McKeithen Site.
Florida > Antiquities.
Mississippian culture > Florida.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Florida > McKeithen Site.
Culture de Weeden Island.
Floride > Antiquités.
Culture du Mississippi > Floride.
Weeden Island.
Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology)
Indian pottery
Mississippian culture
Weeden Island culture
Florida
Florida > McKeithen Site
Table of Contents:
  • Complexification, Migration, and Dating
  • Belief Systems and the Emergence of Societal Complexity
  • Pottery and Ritual Pottery
  • Treatment of the Dead at McKeithen
  • Final Considerations.