A Mississippian Example of Harvest Renewal Ceremonialism

• Published in: Ancient Foodways p. 152
• Main Authors: Nelson, Erin Stevens, Melton, Mallory A, Peles, Ashley
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University Press of Florida 30.12.2022
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: American Indian; ceremonial practices; maize harvest ceremonialism; Mississippian; Muscogee (Creek) Nation; paleoethnobotany; pottery; Prehistoric Archaeology; zooarchaeology

In 1911 anthropologist John R. Swanton began documenting numerous ceremonial grounds (or “square grounds”) of the Muscogee (Creek) and Seminole Nations in Oklahoma, whose ancestors were forcibly removed from their homelands in the southeastern United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830....