Mass Analysis and Raw Material Sourcing as Metrics of Poverty Point's Socio-Political Organization

<p>Hypotheses about the socio-political organization of Poverty Point have each attempted to answer the procedures that led to the site’s construction and continued use. Mass analysis and raw material sourcing of the North Three excavation units offer an enhanced examination of the lithic activities of the Poverty Point site. These analyses provide new insight into how the site may have been utilized by those traveling to the site by assigning social values to the raw materials transported there. The results of this lithic analysis and comparison to previous investigations suggest a crucial activity that would have impacted the socio-political organization of the site has been missed. This thesis seeks to analysis the lithic assemblage of Poverty Point and provide information about this activity that has not been examined previously.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters Thesis

Year dc:date.available

2021

Author dc:creator

• Lewis, Jr., Jeffrey

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. Daniel LaDu
• Dr. H. Edwin Jackson
• Dr. Marie Danforth

• Poverty Point
• Mass Analysis
• Lithic Analysis
• Raw Material Sourcing
• Archaeological Anthropology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://aquila.usm.edu/masters_theses/818

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:aquila.usm.edu:masters_theses-1878