TY - JOUR
AU - HOLDER, PRESTON
AB -  JANUARY-MARCH, No. A PREHISTORIC CEREMONIAL COMPLEX I N THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES By A. J. WARING, JR. and PRESTON HOLDER I N C E the archeological investigations of the sites a t Etowah and Moundville, it has been apparent that there exists in the southeastern United States a complex of specific motifs and ceremonial objects. The recent discoveries a t Spiro, Oklahoma,‘ and the reappearance of Cushing’s Key Marco photographs2 reemphasize the presence of this complex throughout the Southeast, extending from Oklahoma to Florida, from the Gulf to the Great Lakes. Unfortunately, the bulk of this material has never been subjected to adequate analysis. I t has been handled as exotic, introduced by trade from some foreign source, or it has been accepted as indigenous but has been left undiscussed beyond the mention of a few parallels or has been made the subject of purely distributional studies. I t is the purpose of this paper to investigate the similarities in material from widely separated sites and to interpret them in the light of recently-established chronological sequences. We will also attempt t:, suggest the nature of this cbmplex and to come to some conclusions a s to factors determining 
TI - A PREHISTORIC CEREMONIAL COMPLEX IN THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES
JF - American Anthropologist
DO - 10.1525/aa.1945.47.1.02a00020
DA - 1945-01-03
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/a-prehistoric-ceremonial-complex-in-the-southeastern-united-states-M10onUXYb9
SP - 1
VL - 47
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -