essay
Domestic life on the northwest riverbank at Moundville
archaeology of the moundville chiefdom • Washington, Dc • Published In 1998 • Pages: 63-101
By: Scarry, C. Margaret.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
1990s excavations on the riverbank on the northwest edge of Moundville uncovered residential deposits dating to the Moundville I phase (A.D. 1050 - 1250). This article first describes the results of the riverbank excavations and then uses the data from the riverbank combined with information from earlier excavations to examine several aspects of domestic life at Moundville (p. 63).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Ceramic technology
- Lithic industries
- Refuse disposal and sanitary facilities
- Military installations
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mississippian
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- John Beierle ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1991-1992
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 950 BP - 750 BP (1050 A.D. - 1250 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northwest Riverbank Site, Black River Valley, west-central Alabama, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- C. Margaret Scarry
- For bibliographical references see document 21: [Knight and Steponaitis]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98006875
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mississippian culture