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Burial Mounds on the Gulf Coastal Plain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

William H. Sears
William H. Sears*
Affiliation:
Florida State Museum Gainesville, Florida
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Burial mounds, with their contained structures, artifacts, burials, and the patterns of relationship between these concrete items, represent the largest recoverable body of data in the eastern United States which bears directly on problems concerned with prehistoric religion and ceremonialism. These data in turn are directly applicable, with varying levels of reliability, to problems of prehistoric social and political structure. This is possible through the predictably intimate relationship between supernatural and social controls which obtains in primitive societies.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , January 1958 , pp. 274 - 284
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1958

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