- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
-
1 Introduction -
2 The Early–Middle Woodland Domestic Landscape in Kentucky -
3 The Adena Mortuary Landscape -
4 Like a Dead Dog -
5 The Early and Middle Woodland of the Upper Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee -
6 Winchester Farm -
7 Persistent Place, Shifting Practice -
8 Biltmore Mound and the Appalachian Summit Hopewell -
9 The Woodland Period Cultural Landscape of the Leake Site Complex -
10 The Creation of Ritual Space at the Jackson Landing Site in Coastal Mississippi -
11 Late Middle Woodland Settlement and Ritual at the Armory Site -
12 Constituting Similarity and Difference in the Deep South -
13 Ritual Life and Landscape at Tunacunnhee -
14 Swift Creek and Weeden Island Mortuary Landscapes of Interaction -
15 Working Out Adena Political Organization and Variation from the Ritual Landscape in the Kentucky Bluegrass -
16 On Ceremonial Landscapes -
17 Social Landscapes of Early and Middle Woodland Peoples in the Southeast - References
- Contributors
- Index
Like a Dead Dog
Like a Dead Dog
Strategic Ritual Choice in the Mortuary Enterprise
- Chapter:
- (p.56) 4 Like a Dead Dog
- Source:
- Early and Middle Woodland Landscapes of the Southeast
- Author(s):
R. Berle Clay
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
I argue that a national bias on the part of American archaeologists leads to a focus on Middle Woodland burial mounds simply as landscape monuments to the dead created through extended acts of dedicatory mortuary ritual. I suggest we should not ignore the extent to which the complicated and variable ritual performance that the mounds imply reflects planning ahead by funeral parties for the conclusion of larger ritual events which may not simply be involved in memorializing the individual.
Keywords: burial mounds, mortuary ritual, memorialization, bias
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
-
1 Introduction -
2 The Early–Middle Woodland Domestic Landscape in Kentucky -
3 The Adena Mortuary Landscape -
4 Like a Dead Dog -
5 The Early and Middle Woodland of the Upper Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee -
6 Winchester Farm -
7 Persistent Place, Shifting Practice -
8 Biltmore Mound and the Appalachian Summit Hopewell -
9 The Woodland Period Cultural Landscape of the Leake Site Complex -
10 The Creation of Ritual Space at the Jackson Landing Site in Coastal Mississippi -
11 Late Middle Woodland Settlement and Ritual at the Armory Site -
12 Constituting Similarity and Difference in the Deep South -
13 Ritual Life and Landscape at Tunacunnhee -
14 Swift Creek and Weeden Island Mortuary Landscapes of Interaction -
15 Working Out Adena Political Organization and Variation from the Ritual Landscape in the Kentucky Bluegrass -
16 On Ceremonial Landscapes -
17 Social Landscapes of Early and Middle Woodland Peoples in the Southeast - References
- Contributors
- Index
