Ritual dispositions, enclosures, and the passing of time: A biographical perspective on the Winchester Farm earthwork in Central Kentucky, USA

Henry, Edward R.; Mueller, Natalie G.; Jones, Mica B.

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101294

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“…One further point of clarification involves human representations in Adena contexts such as some stone tablets and the Adena Man pipe. While traditional culture historical schemes placed Adena squarely in the Early Woodland period in an ancestordescendant relationship with Middle Woodland/Hopewell, radiocarbon dates reveal substantial temporal overlap (Lepper et al, 2014;Henry and Miller, 2020;Henry et al, , 2021. For example, the Adena Mound, from which the Adena Man pipe was recovered, dates to the first century AD concurrent with the construction and use of some of the large geometric Hopewell enclosures in the region (Lepper et al, 2014, Figure 6).…”

Section: Early Anthropomorphic Figurines In Eastern North Americamentioning

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“…By approximately 50 BCE, settlement expanded south into the largely unoccupied lower Illinois river valley, as evidenced by the bluff-top mound groups that were constructed in a generally north to south chronological trend over several hundred years (Buikstra and Charles, 1999;Ruby et al, 2005;King et al, 2011;Herrmann et al, 2014;Farnsworth and Atwell, 2015, p. 199). In addition to burial ceremonialism, the mound groups were centers of feasting, exchange, and social interaction for communities who periodically gathered at these sites (Struever and Houart, 1972;Buikstra and Charles, 1999;Henry et al, 2021;Weiland et al, 2023). In the Illinois valley, ceremonial gatherings at the mound groups were integral to the formation and maintenance of communities where bluff-top mound groups generally served smaller communities than floodplain mound centers (e.g., Ruby et al, 2005, p. 136).…”

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Settling down with anthropomorphic clay figurines in eastern North America

Miller

2024

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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Indigenous peoples have occupied eastern North America for over 10,000 years; yet the earliest anthropomorphic figurines were only manufactured in the past several thousand years. This emergence of human figurine traditions in eastern North America is correlated with increased settlement permanence, and community size related to key demographic thresholds. In this study, I present an overview of two previously unreported figurine assemblages from the Middle Woodland period in Illinois and use these assemblages as a jumping-off point to examine the emergence of early human figurines in eastern North America. To illustrate the importance of the correlation between anthropomorphic figurines and settling down, I focus on what figurines do that encouraged the emergence of widespread traditions of figurine manufacture and use as the size of affiliative communities increased. This study involves examining early figurines and their broader context through the lens of a model of the socioeconomic dynamics of settling down in conjunction with an examination of the materiality of miniature 3-D anthropomorphic figurines. Key to this latter perspective is understanding not what figurines represent but what they do.

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Settling down with anthropomorphic clay figurines in eastern North America

Miller

2024

Front. Hum. Dyn.

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“…Integrated into an introductory class in archaeological geophysics taught by ERH, our research focused on a heavily modified portion of Cahokia's downtown core. In this area, archaeologists have documented a rapid sequence of large-scale transformations to the Cahokia landscape, thus offering a great opportunity to build upon its "biography of place" (sensu, [62][63][64]) by working to trace how dynamic social changes are reflected in, and documented through, shifts in the built landscape and architectural designs. We chose to attempt this in a noninvasive way using aerial and terrestrial remote sensing methods.…”

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Reimagining the Development of Downtown Cahokia Using Remote Sensing Visualizations from the Western Edge of the Grand Plaza

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The distribution of mounds, plazas, and defensive palisades associated with Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site (CMSHS) defines the core urban environment of Eastern North America’s first American Indian city. The large mounds surrounding Cahokia’s centrally located Grand Plaza, including the palisades that enclose them, are referred to as Downtown Cahokia. In this portion of the site, archaeologists have identified material culture (e.g., ceramics), earthen fills to level the plaza, and several earthen mound constructions. These findings suggest an occupational history for the area that occurred over the 9th–14th centuries CE, with the emergence of plaza delineation and earthwork construction beginning in the early 11th century CE. In sum, Downtown Cahokia and its Grand Plaza are considered by archaeologists to be a vibrant space characterized by ongoing American Indian transformations to an early metropolitan landscape. We conducted magnetometer and electromagnetic induction surveys at the western edge of the Grand Plaza. When compared with the LiDAR-derived visualizations we generated from this portion of the site, our aerial and terrestrial remote sensing data offered new information on the nature and sequence of monument construction in Downtown Cahokia, as well as architectural changes in domestic and special-use structures. These multi-scalar and complementary remote sensing datasets allowed us, without excavating, to trace important sequences of change in Downtown Cahokia’s history.

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