Papers by John E. Cornelison
Mississippian Origins as Viewed from the Shiloh Mound Group, Western Tennessee. In Cahokia in Context: Hegemony and Diaspora, edited by Charles McNutt and Ryan Parish, pp. 303–313. University of Florida Press, Gainesville., 2020
The Shiloh Indian Mound Group has produced a number of artifacts that appear to derive from the A... more The Shiloh Indian Mound Group has produced a number of artifacts that appear to derive from the American Bottom area. Radiocarbon and TL dating indicates the site was occupied from the late tenth through early 14th centuries AD, with construction activity at Mound A occurring between approximately AD 1100 and 1340, with major stages erected during the early and mid-13th century. The Shiloh center was thus emerging during Cahokia’s Stirling phase, from ca. AD 1100–1200, and reached its peak during the subsequent Morehead Phase, from AD 1200–1300. Shiloh, like Cahokia itself, was abandoned sometime around AD 1300. Shiloh’s Mississippian center apparently emerged amid local Late Woodland peoples who apparently made little prior use of the location, suggesting an amalgamation of differing populations or social groups, much as Cahokia itself was likely formed.
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Papers by John E. Cornelison