A Reassessment of the Chronology of Mound a at Toqua

Koerner, S.; Sullivan, Lynne P.; Braly, Bobby R.

doi:10.1179/sea.2011.30.1.010

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“…The Toqua site in the Little Tennessee River valley was a palisaded town with two platform mounds, a central plaza, and a large village area with many domestic houses (Figure 6.2a; Polhemus 1987). It was occupied from the 13th to 16th centuries (Koerner et al in press; Lengyel et al 1999). The Dallas site, located on the Tennessee River near present‐day Chattanooga, was a similar palisaded town with one small platform mound and a central plaza surrounded by dwellings (Lewis et al 1995).…”

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6 Residential Burial, Gender Roles, and Political Development in Late Prehistoric and Early Cherokee Cultures of the Southern Appalachians

Sullivan

Rodning

2010

Archaeological Papers of the American

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Native people in the southern Appalachians began placing graves in and around residences in the 13 th century C.E. Burials previously were placed in specialized burial mounds that likely belonged to individual kin groups. For several centuries, the practice of residential burial was contemporaneous with burial in or near public buildings that sometimes were built on platform mounds. During this time, residential versus 'public' burial became related to spatial symbolism of gender and leadership roles. These changes suggest a developmental trajectory that distinguishes southern Appalachian societies from their contemporaries elsewhere in the southeastern U.S. [Mississippian, Cherokee, gender, North Carolina, Tennessee]

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6 Residential Burial, Gender Roles, and Political Development in Late Prehistoric and Early Cherokee Cultures of the Southern Appalachians

Sullivan

Rodning

2010

Archaeological Papers of the American

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“…These sites had central plazas fronting either a platform mound topped by a large, council house-like structure or just the large building without the mound. Such towns continued in use in the Ridge and Valley until after European contact (Hally 2008;Koerner et al 2011;Rodning and Sullivan 2020;Smith 2000;Sullivan 1987Sullivan , 1995Sullivan , 2016Sullivan , 2019.…”

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Tracking Mississippian Migrations from the Central Mississippi Valley to the Ridge and Valley with a Unified Absolute Chronology

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Meeks

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Am. Antiq.

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As regional chronologies become better defined, we are better able to track large-scale population movements and related cultural change. A dataset of 156 radiocarbon dates from the Middle Cumberland Region (MCR), evaluated with 199 more dates from the Ridge and Valley portions of northern Georgia and East Tennessee, enable modeling of population movements from the Central Mississippi Valley into the MCR, as well as subsequent movements and effects in the Ridge and Valley between AD 1200 and 1450. The dissolution of Cahokia is of particular interest, because the MCR falls geographically between the American Bottom and the Ridge and Valley province. This large-scale chronological perspective places key events in this part of the Southeast and Midwest into a unified historical framework that increases our understanding of the timing of cultural events. A related goal is to sort out possible external events and influences that may have affected this large region. This study makes apparent the relationships between cultural events and natural events, such as the drought sequences reported for the Central Mississippi Valley and beyond.

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Revisiting Platform Mounds and Townhouses in the Cherokee Heartland: A Collaborative Approach

Steere

2015

Southeastern Archaeology

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A Reassessment of the Chronology of Mound a at Toqua

Cited by 5 publications

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6 Residential Burial, Gender Roles, and Political Development in Late Prehistoric and Early Cherokee Cultures of the Southern Appalachians

6 Residential Burial, Gender Roles, and Political Development in Late Prehistoric and Early Cherokee Cultures of the Southern Appalachians

Tracking Mississippian Migrations from the Central Mississippi Valley to the Ridge and Valley with a Unified Absolute Chronology

Revisiting Platform Mounds and Townhouses in the Cherokee Heartland: A Collaborative Approach

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6 Residential Burial, Gender Roles, and Political Development in Late Prehistoric and Early Cherokee Cultures of the Southern Appalachians

6 Residential Burial, Gender Roles, and Political Development in Late Prehistoric and Early Cherokee Cultures of the Southern Appalachians

Tracking Mississippian Migrations from the Central Mississippi Valley to the Ridge and Valley with a Unified Absolute Chronology

Revisiting Platform Mounds and Townhouses in the Cherokee Heartland: A Collaborative Approach

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6 Residential Burial, Gender Roles, and Political Development in Late Prehistoric and Early Cherokee Cultures of the Southern Appalachians

6 Residential Burial, Gender Roles, and Political Development in Late Prehistoric and Early Cherokee Cultures of the Southern Appalachians