Archaeologists have been studying the monumental earthworks in the eastern woodlands since Thomas Jefferson first tasked a few of his slaves with excavating one in order to determine if they were built by Native Americans or not. Here I very briefly review what we know about the process of monumentality in the Southeast over the course of 6000 years .
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The channel "Ancient Americas" also has a really good Poverty Point video that I'm happy to plug here: • Poverty Point: Archaic...
Sources:
David Anderson & Kenneth Sassaman, 2012
Recent Developments in Southeastern Archaeology: From Colonization to Complexity.
Archaic
David Anderson 2014
Paleoindian and Archaic Periods in North America
In The Cambridge World Prehistory edited by Paul Bahn, Colin Renfrew
Tristram R. Kidder, 2012
Poverty Point. In The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology,
edited by Timothy R. Pauketat
Kenneth Sassaman, 2010
The Eastern Archaic, Historicized. AltaMira Press, New York.
William F. Romain, and Norman L. Davis, 2011
Astronomy and Geometry at Poverty Point. Louisiana Archaeology 38
Mark A. Hill, Diana M. Greenlee, and Hector Neff, 2016
Assessing the provenance of Poverty Point copper through LA-ICP-MS
compositional analysis.
Jon L. Gibson, 2007
"Formed from the Earth at That Place": The Material Side of Community at Poverty Point.
Romain, William F. and Norman L. Davis 2011
Astronomy and Geometry at Poverty Point.
Claassen, Cheryl. 2010.
Feasting with Shellfish in the Southern Ohio Valley: Archaic Sacred
Sites and Rituals. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
Woodland Complexity
Robert C. Mainfort, Jr 1988
Middle Woodland Ceremonialism at Pinson Mounds, Tennessee
American Antiquity, vol. 53(1)
Charles H. McNutt 2005
The Pinson Observatory
Southeastern Archaeology vol. 24(2)
Edward R. Henry, Alice P. Wright, Sarah C. Sherwood, Stephen B. Carmody,
Casey R. Barrier, and Christopher Van de Ven. 2020
Beyond Never-Never Land: Integrating LiDAR and Geophysical Surveys at the Johnston Site, Pinson
Mounds State Archaeological Park, Tennessee, USA
Remote Sensing.
Alice P. Wright and Edward R. Henry 2013
Early and Middle Woodland Landscapes of the Southeast
Mississippian
Jera R Davis., John H. Blitz, and Chester P. Walker 2015
Remote Sensing as Community Settlement Analysis at Moundville
Vernon James Knight
1998 Moundville as a Diagrammatic Ceremonial Center. In Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom, edited by Vernon J. Knight and Vincas P. Steponaitis, pp. 44-62. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
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