Recent sediment coring, excavation, artifact analyses, and radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating shed light on earthworks and household structures at Carson, and on Mississippian culture
One White Mississippian was more blunt: "I'd rather be dead," he said, "than be a nigger on one of these big plantations." (I:6a) The words suggest the degradation. The images show it. The camera work intensifies it, making explicit the "aggression" Sontag suggests is "implicit in ...
The Black Keys are set to release an all blues shout-out to their Mississippian inspirations. The Akron, Ohio duo Dan Auerbach (guitar) and Patrick Carney (drums) have made a career out of blues-related rock. Delta Kreamwill drop May 14th with the track list below ...
12 February 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 The rise of Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian Native American city north of Mexico, and the rapid spread of Mississippian culture across the midcontinental and southeast- ern USA after AD 1000 has long been...
gold and pearls. Then Mayas then founded the city of Tenochtitlan and built roads that encompassed about 5 million people. The natives of North America were nomadic, the Adena-Hopwell, Mississippian and Anasazi cultures emerged. There were approximately 240 different tribes speaking in different lan...
Enlightenment-era perspectives (see Ritvo 1985) that draw distinct lines between culture (people and their products) and nature (everything else) have long been influential in archaeology. As a result, Western approaches to organizing the world are disproportionately represented in global narratives of...
To conclude, archaeometallurgical analysis of the copper-based trade metal samples from the Haas/Hagerman Site demonstrates that copper-based metal was incorporated into the Illinois material culture repertoire through a simple suite of well-known forming processes through which old forms were imitated...
Local producers from small settlements actively participated in the Mississippian landscape (Maxham, 2000) and their life choices ultimately affected their health and that of their children. Osteological indicators of health, as predicted, varied across these early Mississippian settlements following a rise...
Throughout its nearly four-billion-year history, life has undergone evolutionary transitions in which simpler subunits have become integrated to form a more complex whole. Many of these transitions opened the door to innovations that resulted in increased biodiversity and/or organismal efficiency. The ...
E. Reconstructing the culture history of the multicomponent site Squires Ridge (31ED365) within the northern Coastal Plain of North Carolina. (Thesis, Department of Anthropology, East Carolina University, 2015). Choate, B. C. S tratigraphic investigations at Barber Creek (31PT259): ...