About the Book
Archaic Eastern America's rituals and beliefs describe, illustrate and provide non-dogmatic interpretations of Archaic America's rituals and beliefs. The author Cheryl Claassen developed both a comprehensive reference and an opening in fresh archaeological taxonomies, relations, and understandings of Native American culture by compiling an array of comprehensive entries.
In an introductory paper on Archaic rituals, the material is accompanied by two parts of the papers containing reports and articles on archaeological locations. It contains studying appropriate ritual and faith methods, and information on geologic characteristics, artifact characteristics and burial environments. It also contains ethnography. Claassen's research focuses on American Archaic periods and on the geographic areas bordered by the Great Plains, North and South Florida at the end of the Ice Age roughly 11,000 years ago. This era and area share certain views and procedures, such as sacrifice, the burial of the dirt mound and oyster shell.
This interpretive manual serves as a platform for fresh interpretations and concepts of this era. For instance, Claassen connects rituals to topographic characteristics and posits the Pleistocene-Holocene transition as a significant stimulus for Archaic views. She also extends the interpretation of current information earlier understood in financial or environmental terms to include how this same information can also disclose spiritual and symbolic activities. Similarly, Claassen interprets Archaic culture in terms of human agency and social constraint, focusing on ritual acts as drivers of social conversion and ethnogenesis.
Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America, richly annotated and cross-referenced for ease of use, will benefit academics and students of archeology and Native American culture. The archeological record overview by Claassen should foster the creation of initial archeological and historical links and patterns. Such an approach, Claassen suggests, may reveal patterns of influence extending from early eastern Americans to the Aztec and Maya.
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