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A Note on Middle Mississippi Architecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

John Bennett
John Bennett*
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University of Chicago
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In Dr. Philip Phillips' recent paper, “Middle American Influences on the Archaeology of the Southeastern United States,” there appears the following statement concerning the architecture of late cultures associated with the Mississippi pattern:

Of house types and methods of construction generally, little is known. Most indications point to a simple rectangular single-roomed type of dwelling witliout specialized entrance or other features. Larger ceremonial housqs or “temples” were not more elaborate. Construction seems to have been chiefly ot a bentpole framework covered by cane, thatch, or clay daub. Interior posts occasionally indicate a less flimsy rigidframe type of construction.

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American Antiquity , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , January 1944 , pp. 333 - 334
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1944

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References

1 In The Maya and Their Neighbors, Appleton Century, 1940.

2 J. R. Swanton Indian Tribes of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 43, 1922, pp. 59–61.

3 Ibid. , p. 64.

4 Ibid. , p. 159.

5 By this author and Mr. John Adams.