Paradigms Lost

Reconfiguring Cahokia's Mound 72 Beaded Burial

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ID2104449
AutoresThomas E Emerson (0000-0002-6540-3359, Illinois Archaeological Survey, autor correspondente), Kristin M Hedman (0000-0001-5929-6887, Illinois Archaeological Survey, autor correspondente), Eve A Hargrave (Illinois Archaeological Survey, autor correspondente), Dawn E Cobb (Illinois State Museum), Andrew R Thompson (0000-0002-1384-2229, University of Cincinnati)
Ano2016
Volume81
Fascículo3
Páginas405-425
Data de publicação2016-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7183/0002-7316.81.3.405
OpenAlexW2488955730
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas18

The Beaded Burial central to F101 within Cahokia's mound 72Sub1 has been fundamental to some cosmological explanations of the founding of this North American precolumbian polity. The central burial, identified as two males surrounded by retainers, has been interpreted as paradigmatic of a paramount chiefdom, or conversely, as a mythic cosmogram. Recent bioarchaeological reanalysis and two independent osteological studies of F101 and associated burials have identified the presence of male/female pairs, numerous females, and at least one child, suggesting that previous explanations privileging the male Red Horn association should be reexamined. We suggest that 72Sub1 is most likely correlated with ritual practices promoting world creation, renewal, and fertility symbolism

Archaeology · Chiefdom · Geography · Osteology · Polity · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Geology · History · Law · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology