{"title":"Carson and Cahokia","authors":"Jay K. Johnson, John M. Connaway","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvx070sj.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx070sj.17","url":null,"abstract":"The Carson Mounds Group, a large mound center located near the Mississippi River in northwestern Mississippi, has produced a complex suite of traits which suggest direct Cahokia contact. These traits include raw material, lithic technology, projectile point styles, ceramics, and architecture. This chapter describes these artifacts and their place within the Carson sequence.","PeriodicalId":319251,"journal":{"name":"Cahokia in Context","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127501497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kincaid Mounds and the Cahokian Decline","authors":"Tamira K. Brennan, C. Pursell","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvx070sj.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx070sj.9","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers whether the influence of Cahokian hegemony is present at sites largely autonomous of Greater Cahokia and how that might be recognized, from the perspective of Kincaid Mounds. Kincaid was a contemporary of Cahokia and one of the nearest major centers outside of it. Despite the fact that little direct evidence of Cahokian influence has been documented there, the effects of the rise and fall of Cahokian hegemony may be apparent in its social history.","PeriodicalId":319251,"journal":{"name":"Cahokia in Context","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131526346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cahokians and the Circulation of Ritual Goods in the Middle Cumberland Region","authors":"Rob Sharp, Kevin E. Smith, D. Dye","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvx070sj.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx070sj.20","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter addresses the influence of human migration into the Middle Cumberland Region by examining the circulation of ritual goods as represented by four groups of objects: ceramics, shell cups and gorgets, stone tablets, and symbolic weaponry. While the presence of Ramey Incised and Cahokia Cordmarked ceramics in the MCR demonstrates the arrival of a community from the American Bottom in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, the manufacture, use, and deposition of negative-painted ceramics in the MCR between A.D. 1250 and 1400 represents the adoption of motifs in contemporary use at Cahokia and the sustained interaction between a group of polities, including those in the American Bottom. The adoption of Braden-style imagery on marine shell and its association with female effigy vessels in an MCR mortuary practice centered on the graves of children reveals a pronounced ritual dedication to an Earth Mother deity in the MCR that is an important focus of our research. Furthermore, the sharing of iconography intimately associated with the Hero Twins in ceramics, marine shell, and stone tablets, and their association with symbolic weaponry, links these culture heroes with the female deity as the central figures in the religious practices of the MCR devoted to reincarnation and rebirth.","PeriodicalId":319251,"journal":{"name":"Cahokia in Context","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115030862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}