EARLY WOODLAND RITUAL USE OF CAVES IN EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
Mammoth and Salts caves in west-central Kentucky were intensively mined for gypsum and other sulfate minerals during the Early Woodland period (ca. 1000—200 B.C.). I propose hat this mining was part of a larger ritual performance associated with the initiation of adolescent males into adulthood. Dra...
| Veröffentlicht in: | American Antiquity. - Society for American Archaeology. - 77(2012), 3, Seite 524-541 |
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| Schlagworte: | Physical sciences Biological sciences Behavioral sciences Business |