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Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island: Complexity, Ritual, and Pottery

Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island: Complexity, Ritual, and Pottery

Rice, Prudence M.

Paperback

Series: Archaeology of the American South: New Directions and Perspe

ArchaeologyGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0817361146
ISBN13: 9780817361143
Publisher: University Alabama Press
Published: Dec 12 2023
Pages: 132
Language: English

Reassesses the ancient Indigenous McKeithen site in northern Florida in light of new data, analyses, and theories

Revisiting McKeithen Weeden Island further illuminates an Indigenous Late Woodland (ca. AD 200-900) mound-and-village community in northern Florida that was first excavated in the late 1970s. Since then, some artifacts received additional analyses, and the topic of prechiefdom societies has been broadly reconsidered in anthropology and archaeology. These developments allow new perspectives on McKeithen's history and significance.

Prudence M. Rice, a Mayanist who began her career at the University of Florida, revisits what is known about McKeithen and recontextualizes the 1970s excavations. Weeden Island and McKeithen are best known through mortuary mounds and mortuary ritual, mainly involving unusual pottery bird effigies. Rice discusses current theoretical trends in studies of ritual and belief systems and their relation to mound-building at McKeithen in early stages of developing societal complexity.

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