Southeastern ceremonial complex : chronology, content, context / edited by Adam King.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• King, Adam, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Mississippian culture.
• Indians of North America--Southern States--Rites and ceremonies.
• Indians of North America--Southern States--Antiquities.
• Indians of North America.
• Rites and ceremonies.
• Southern States.
• Antiquities.
• Southern States--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

xiv, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2007]

Contents:

• The southeastern ceremonial complex : from cult to complex / Adam King
• Prolegomena for the analysis of the southeastern ceremonial complex / Jon Muller
• Chronological implications of the bellows-shaped apron / James A. Brown
• Mound 34 : the context for the early evidence of the southeastern ceremonial complex at Cahokia / John E. Kelly ... [et al.]
• Shell gorgets, time, and the southeastern ceremonial complex in southeastern Tennessee / Lynne P. Sullivan
• Mound C and the southeastern ceremonial complex in the history of the Etowah site / Adam King
• Connections between the Etowah and Lake Jackson chiefdoms : patterns in the iconographic and material evidence / John F. Scarry
• An assessment of Moundville engraved "cult" designs from potsherds / Vernon James Knight, Jr.
• Hightower anthropomorphic marine shell gorgets and Duck River sword-form flint bifaces : middle Mississippian ritual regalia in the southern Appalachians / Shawn Marceaux and David H. Dye
• Mississippian shell gorgets in regional perspective / David J. Hally
• Sex and the southern cult / Susan M. Alt and Timothy R. Pauketat
• Whither SECC? / Adam King.

Notes:

• "A Dan Josselyn Memorial publication"--P. [ii].
• Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-287) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780817315542
• 0817315543
• 9780817354091
• 0817354093

OCLC:

81252770