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Middle Woodland ceremonialism at Pinson Mounds, Tennessee
American antiquity • 53 • Published In 1988 • Pages: 158-173
By: Mainfort, Robert C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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. These platform mounds were constructed without structures on their top. This also points to a nonmortuary use of this center. As Mainfort states, '…the mound group apparently was constructed for ceremonial use by a number of relatively small societies lacking mutivillage political authority.' (page 169). Also briefly described are the excavations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Ceramic technology
- Religious and educational structures
- Miscellaneous structures
- Settlement patterns
- Burial practices and funerals
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Eastern Middle 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
- article
- 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 ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1974-1975, 1981-1983
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2000 BP-1500 BP (1 A.D.-500 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pinson Mounds, Madison County, Tennessee, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert C. Mainfort, Jr.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-173)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 46036122
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Woodland culture