essay
Shrines of the prehistoric South: patterning in Middle Woodland mound distribution
world engraved : archaeology of the swift creek culture • Tuscaloosa • Published In 1998 • Pages: 36-47
By: Williams, Mark, Harris, Jennifer Freer.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Williams and Harris examine the distribution of mounds during the Middle Woodland period in Georgia and South Carolina and compare it to mound distribution during the Mississippian period. More than a dozen possible shrine sites are briefly described. They found the mounds to be spaced about 10-30 kilometers apart, similar to the spacing for Mississippian mounds. The mounds sites also contain little midden so people didn't live there on a permanent basis. The authors believe other site distribution should cluster close to the mounds.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Location
- Religious and educational structures
- Settlement patterns
- Miscellaneous facilities
- 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
- essay
- 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
- 1984, 1986-1987, 1991
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Middle Woodland
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Georgia and South Carolina, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Mark Williams and Jennifer Freer Harris
- For bibliographical references see 9: Williams and Elliot
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98009001
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Woodland culture