Transforming the dead : culturally modified bone in the prehistoric Midwest /

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"Transforming the Dead, is a collection of essays that examines culturally modified human bones and their roles as 'cultural and ritual objects' among prehistoric Eastern Woodland cultures. Previous scholarship has explored the role of human body parts in Native American cultures as t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lillie, Robin M., Hedman, Kristin, Schermer, Shirley J., 1946-, Hargrave, Eve A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : The University Alabama Press, 2015.
Temas:
To 1500
Social archaeology > Middle West.
Material culture > Middle West > History > To 1500.
Indians of North America > Warfare > Middle West > History > To 1500.
Indians of North America > Funeral customs and rites > Middle West > History > To 1500.
Military trophies > Middle West > History > To 1500.
Burial > Middle West > History > To 1500.
Human remains (Archaeology) > Middle West.
Bones > Social aspects > Middle West > History.
Woodland culture > Middle West.
Archéologie sociale > Midwest (États-Unis)
Restes humains (Archéologie) > Midwest (États-Unis)
Os > Aspect social > Midwest (États-Unis) > Histoire.
Sylvicole > Midwest (États-Unis)
HISTORY > Native American.
RELIGION > Ethnic & Tribal.
RELIGION > Antiquities & Archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Antiquities.
Burial.
Human remains (Archaeology)
Indians of North America > Funeral customs and rites.
Indians of North America > Warfare.
Material culture.
Military trophies.
Social archaeology.
Woodland culture.
Middle West > Antiquities.
Middle West.
History.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Transforming the Dead / Shirley J. Schermer, Eve A. Hargrave, Kristin M. Hedman, and Robin M. Lillie
  • I. Woodland Period
  • 2. A Taphonomic Analysis of Hopewellian Modified Trophy Jaws / Stephen P. Nawrocki and Paul D. Emanovsky
  • 3. Objectifying Middle Woodland Mortuary Practices through the Inclusion of Modified Human Jaws : A Central Illinois River Valley Case Study / Dawn E. Cobb
  • 4. More than Skulls and Mandibles : Culturally Modified Human Remains from Woodland Contexts in Ohio / Cheryl A. Johnston
  • 5. Arrangement of Human Remains and Artifacts in Scioto Hopewell Burials : Dramatic Rituals or Ritual Dramas? / Christopher Carr and Anna Novotny
  • 6. Phallic Batons Made of Bone in the Collections of the Ohio Historical Society / Anne B. Lee and Cheryl A. Johnston
  • 7. Excised and Drilled Human Bone from Eastern Iowa Woodland Sites / Shirley J. Schermer and Robin M. Lillie
  • II. Mississippian Period
  • 8. Life after Death : A Brief History of Human Bone Tools in Submound 51 at Cahokia / Eve A. Hargrave and Della Collins Cook
  • 9. Opportunity Knocks : Nonritual Use of Human Bone at the Aztalan Site, Jefferson County, Wisconsin / Katie J. Zejdlik
  • 10. Vessel, Ornament, Mask, or Rattle? : Reconstructing a Mississippian Worked Bone Object from the Angel Site / Della Collins Cook and Cheryl Ann Munson
  • 11. Modification of Human Bone from Mississippian Caborn-Welborn Phase Sites in Southwestern Indiana and West-Central Kentucky / Cheryl Ann Munson, Della Collins Cook, and Mary Lucas Powell
  • III. Late Prehistoric Period
  • 12. Human Bone as Ritual Object? : Modified Human Bone from the Hoxie Farm and Anker Sites, Cook County, Illinois / Kristin M. Hedman
  • 13. Grooved Teeth from Red Wing Locality Sites and the Loss or Gain of Identity / Kathleen T. Blue
  • 14. Design Motifs and Other Modifications of Human Bone from Iowa Late Prehistoric Oneota Sites / Robin M. Lillie and Shirley J. Schermer
  • IV. Perspectives
  • 15. The Meaning of Scalping in Native North America / Linea Sundstrom
  • 16. Contextualizing the Precolumbian Postmortem "Life" of Modified Human Remains / Maria Ostendorf Smith.

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