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The Iowa Effigy Mound manifestation: an interpretive model
Office of the State Archaeologist, The University of Iowa • (9) • Published In 1976 • Pages: viii, 128
By: Mallam, R. Clark.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Mallam uses data from previous surveys and his own survey of the effigy mounds in Iowa to propose some interpretive models on the Effigy Mound tradition. Using statistics he was able to place the effigy mounds into four categories and to show that most effigy mounds in Iowa occur within the Driftless Zone and near the confluence of a tributary and the Mississippi River. The mounds were made by different social groups with the mound complexes functioning as territorial demarcators. These gatherings probably occurred during the late spring and early summer so '… activities such as gift-giving, marriages, and alliances [could be] conducted …espcially for the purpose of insuring access to favorable natural resource areas…' (page 57) such as those found within the Mississippi trench. A third hypothesis on the subsistence-settlement patterns (summer gatherings at the mound complexes with people dispersing into family groups during the winter) needs additional data from sites other than mound complexes before it can be fully evaluated.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Topography and geology
- Fauna
- Flora
- Miscellaneous structures
- Miscellaneous facilities
- Visual arts
- Social relationships and groups
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Eastern Late Woodland
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Effigy Mound; 1700 BP-358 BP (300 A.D.-1642 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Iowa and Wisconsin; United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by R. Clark Mallam
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-128)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 76018668
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Woodland culture