Beneath an Earthen Countenance: the Architecture and Artifacts of the Moundville Earth Lodge Complex

Public Deposited
Analytics

Downloadable Content

Download PDF
Request Version for Screen Reader
Last Modified
  • March 20, 2019
Creator
  • Mirarchi, Matthew Jared
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology
Abstract
  • Archaeological excavations conducted by Vernon J. Knight, Jr. of Mound V's earth lodge complex at the Moundville site, Alabama yielded pottery and stone artifacts that heretofore have been unanalyzed and unreported. For this study, pottery, stone, and architectural analyses were the principal mechanisms used to (1) support the fifteenth-century radiocarbon dates attributed to the Moundville earth lodge complex and (2) describe the architectural components with and features from which the pottery and stone artifacts were associated and recovered. Descriptions and analyses of the complex's artifacts and architecture thus bracketed my consideration of the complex's chronology and function, and its potential significance at a time when Moundville had transitioned from a regional political center to a depopulated necropolis.
Date of publication
DOI
Resource type
Rights statement
  • In Copyright
Advisor
  • Steponaitis, Vincas
Language
Access right
  • Open access
Date uploaded
  • October 11, 2010

Relations

Parents:

This work has no parents.

Items

Thumbnail Title Date Uploaded Visibility Actions
file details Beneath an earthen countenance : the architecture and artifacts of the Moundville earth lodge complex 2019-04-09 Public Download