Late Middle Woodland Settlement and Ritual at the Armory Site
Late Middle Woodland Settlement and Ritual at the Armory Site
This chapter discusses Late Middle Woodland Settlement and Ritual at the Armory site located along the Alabama River in central Alabama. Following a distributional analysis of local and non-local pottery from this site, it is argued that a non-local population from the Gulf Coast traveled to the Armory site, where they cohabitated on opposing sides of the site with a local population from central Alabama. While it is difficult to tease out the motivations of prehistoric peoples from the archaeological record, it is argued here that ritual, perhaps in the form of “pilgrimage,” was the primary motivation behind the movement of people from the Gulf Coast into central Alabama.
Keywords: settlement, ritual, late Middle Woodland, pilgrimage, Armory site
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