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A Possible Case of Cannibalism in the Early Woodland Period of Eastern Georgia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

David Sutton Phelps  and
Rebekah Burgess
David Sutton Phelps
Affiliation:
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Rebekah Burgess
Affiliation:
Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina
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Abstract

Preliminary investigations at White's Mound, Richmond County, Georgia, have revealed a stratified sequence of cultural material that begins with Stallings Island fiber-tempered pottery and is followed by Deptford, which occurs coincident with a more popular cord-marked type and minor amounts of a fabric-impressed type. The cord-marked pottery is assumed to be indicative of the timing and impact of the Northern tradition on this area. The last test square excavated on the site yielded evidence of possible cannibalism in the form of redeposited fragmentary bones, most of them cooked and a few calcined. With the deposit of bones, some of which had been cut, were a boatstone, a bear-claw necklace, and Deptford bold check-stamped and simple-stamped sherds. An alternative explanation is redeposited cremation which does have precedence in the Georgia area and in the Northern tradition.

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American Antiquity , Volume 30 , Issue 2Part1 , October 1964 , pp. 199 - 202
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1964

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