A Multidimensional Investigation of Biocultural Relationships among Three Late Prehistoric Societies in Tennessee

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ID2575235
AutoresC Clifford Boyd (Radford University, autor correspondente), Donna C Boyd (Radford University)
Ano1991
Volume56
Fascículo1
Páginas75-88
Data de publicação1991-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/280974
OpenAlexW1987254966
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas6

Interrelations among three roughly contemporaneous late prehistoric Mississippian societies in Middle and East Tennessee are reexamined in terms of currently available biological, archaeological, and ethnohistoric data. Previous researchers have suggested a close relation between two of those cultures-Mouse Creek and Middle Cumberland-to the exclusion of the third, Dallas. However, multivariate analyses of craniofacial and mandibular dimensions of individuals from the three groups suggest a greater biological relation between Dallas and Mouse Creek than between Mouse Creek and Middle Cumberland. In addition, a comparison of intrasite settlement patterning, ceramic and mortuary variability, and ethnohistoric data across the three groups support the skeletal analysis. Relations between Dallas and Mouse Creek may mirror similar processes of sociopolitical reorganization occurring throughout the Southeast in the late prehistoric period

Archaeology · Geography · Period (music) · Prehistory · Settlement (finance) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History