Mississippian Period Status Differentiation through Textile Analysis

A Caddoan Example

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2575663
AutoresJenna Tedrick Kuttruff (Louisiana State University, autor correspondente)
Ano1993
Volume58
Fascículo1
Páginas125-145
Data de publicação1993-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/281458
OpenAlexW4235044029
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas16

Specific attributes were recorded for 119 textiles recovered from burial contexts from Craig Mound at the Spiro site and eight southern Ozark bluff shelters. Textile attributes that varied according to status designations of the burial contexts were identified using the following three avenues of investigation. The textiles were rated using an ordinal index of production complexity, and more complex textiles were found to be associated with burial contexts of presumed higher status. Use of a series of contingency tables identified edge finishes, color, patterning, design motif, fiber, and scale as attributes that are individually associated with status differences. When selected attributes were considered together using a classification and pattern-recognition program, color description, scale, fiber, and number of yarn components were identified as the best predictors of status association

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cartography · Geography · Motif (music) · Period (music) · Scale (ratio) · Textile · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology