book chapter
Pinson Mounds: a middle woodland ceremonial center
Tennessee Dept. of Conservation • (7) • Published In 1986 • Pages: vii-xiv, 1-90
By: Mainfort, Robert C., Beck, Lane A., Kwas, Mary L., Morse, Dan F., Shannon, George W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 others were burial mounds), a large geometric embankment, and associated short-term habitations aresa…' (page 4). It is one of the largest if not the largest mound group from the Middle Woodland period whether measured by acreage (400 acres) or by volume of mound fill (approximately 100,000 cubic meters). It was a unique Middle Woodland ceremonial center. Mainfort conducted excavations at Mound 5, Mound 31, Mound 10, Duck's Nest, the Duck Nest sector, and Mound 6 also known as the Twin Mounds. A major portion of this report describes Mainfort's excavations at the northern burial mound of Twin Mounds.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Post depositional processes in archaeological sites
- Ceramic technology
- Religious and educational structures
- Miscellaneous structures
- Miscellaneous facilities
- Burial practices and funerals
- 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
- book chapter
- 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
- 1981-1984
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2050 BP-1540 BP (50 B.C.- 460 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Pinson Mounds (40MD1) and Cochran site, Tennessee, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. with contributions by Lane A. Beck …. [et al.]
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-87)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86623095
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Woodland culture