Sclerochronology of Busycon sinistrum: late prehistoric seasonality determination at St. Joseph Bay, Florida, USA

Harke, Ryan Michael; Herbert, Gregory S.; White, Nancy Marie; Sliko, Jennifer L.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2015.01.014

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“…2). It lives on the sandy ocean floor in the Atlantic coast of North America, the Texas and Florida Gulf of Mexico, and along the Mexican Gulf coast to Yucatan (see Claassen & Sigmann 1993;Harke et al 2015;Kozuch 1998). Harvesting of lightning whelks was common in pre-and post-contact Native North America.…”

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A Microhistory of Human and Gastropod Bodies and Souls During Cahokia's Emergence

Baires¹

2016

CAJ

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This article examines the role of mortuary practice in the emergence (c. ad 1050–1100) of Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian Native American city north of Mexico. The parallel partitioning of human and gastropod bodies in ridge-top mortuary mounds is examined and I argue that the presence of gastropods buried alongside human bodies served to connect the living world of humans with the watery underworld of the dead. From a microhistorical perspective, this paper focuses on the processing and deposition of bodies and their subsequent interment in ridge-top burials to parse the potential relationships between such mortuary practice and Cahokia's emergence as a complex polity. The paper presents data on the association of shell materials with human bodies from six previously excavated ridge-tops for comparison with new data on shell materials and human burials from Wilson Mound, a small ridge-top located on the western edge of Cahokia. Together, these data suggest the emergence of Cahokia was embedded in newly articulated relationships with persons enacted through the process of disarticulating the dead for burial mediated with mollusc shell.

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Section: Introduction: Microhistories Bodies and Soulsmentioning

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A Microhistory of Human and Gastropod Bodies and Souls During Cahokia's Emergence

Baires¹

2016

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Using the Fossil Record to Establish a Baseline and Recommendations for Oyster Mitigation in the Mid-Atlantic U.S.

Kusnerik

Lockwood

Grant

2018

Topics in Geobiology

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Indicator groups and effective seasons on the coast: Zooarchaeology of fish in the lower Suwannee region of Florida

Palmiotto

2016

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

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Sclerochronology of Busycon sinistrum: late prehistoric seasonality determination at St. Joseph Bay, Florida, USA

Cited by 5 publications

References 41 publications

A Microhistory of Human and Gastropod Bodies and Souls During Cahokia's Emergence

A Microhistory of Human and Gastropod Bodies and Souls During Cahokia's Emergence

Using the Fossil Record to Establish a Baseline and Recommendations for Oyster Mitigation in the Mid-Atlantic U.S.

Indicator groups and effective seasons on the coast: Zooarchaeology of fish in the lower Suwannee region of Florida

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