Documents
eHRAF is comprised of thousands of ethnographic sources including monographs, journal articles, dissertations and manuscripts. Use this page to find relevant documents by searching or filtering. Each document in eHRAF also contains a Publication Information page with added metadata including brief abstracts written by HRAF analysts who have subject-indexed the file.
Middle Woodland ceremonialism at Pinson Mounds, Tennesseearticle 1988 • Mainfort, Robert C.
Eastern Middle Woodland • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Mainfort describes the platform mounds, the burial mounds, and other geometric earthworks at the site of Pinson Mounds. He emphasizes that platform mounds were also constructed in the Middle Woodland and not just during the Mississippian period. Thes...Pinson Moundsbook chapter 1986 • Mainfort, Robert C. et al.
Eastern Middle Woodland • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Mainfort describes previous research at Pinson Mounds and his own excavations for the Tennessee Department of Conservation, Division of Archaeology. 'The Pinson Mounds site includes at least 12 mounds (some of them were large platform mounds and othe...Provenience of artifactsessay 1997 • Morse, Dan F. et al.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
Morse et al. analyze the spatial patterning of the artifacts and the bone at the site to confirm the interpretation that Sloan was a cemetery and to determine how many individuals may have been buried there. Each artifact cluster is described. The di...