References Page 1 References Abler, TS, and MH Logan. 1988. The Florescence and
Demise of Iroquoian Cannibalism: Human Sacrifice and Malinowski’s Hypothesis. Man in the�…

(Fig. 5.1). The image takes several forms, but the U-shaped serpent with horns and peculiar
wings was apparently particularly important at Moundville. In the only published inventory of�…

Images on rocks depicting birds, serpents, deer, and other designs are haunting reminders
of prehistoric peoples. This book documents Missouri's rich array of petroglyphs and�…

The history of iconographic analysis of Southeastern Ceremonial Com-plex subject matter
can rightly be said to have started with Phil Phillips's long-term study of the amazing�…

The Mississippian period in eastern North America is dated to between ca. 1000 and 400
cal. bp in most sequences, encompassing the last few centuries before sustained European�…

Symbolic objects for ceremonial display, or sacra, tend to be systematically related in their
representational content to the cult institutions that produce and manipulate them. Cult�…

Similar prehistoric iconographic images on shell, copper, and ceramics have been found
across a wide geographic area in the Eastern Woodlands and the Plains. Even if the area is�…

The venerable concept of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC) needs to be
discarded, because it has become an impediment to understanding. The phenomena to�…

In recent years the pace of research on the late prehistoric Mississippian societies of eastern
North America has accelerated. New data, methods, and theoretical goals are changing�…

The multiple-mound site at Moundville, Alabama, has produced a large collection of whole
ceramic vessels, many of which bear engraved designs which are part of the iconography of�…