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Mounds, Myths, and Cherokee Townhouses in Southwestern North Carolina

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Christopher B. Rodning
Christopher B. Rodning*
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Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 7041 Freret Street, New Orleans, LA 70118, (crodning@tulane.edu)
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Abstract

This paper explores the role of public architecture in anchoring Cherokee communities to particular points within the southern Appalachian landscape in the wake of European contact in North America. Documentary evidence about Cherokee public structures known as townhouses demonstrates that they were settings for a variety of events related to public life in Cherokee towns, and that there were a variety of symbolic meanings associated with them. Archaeological evidence of Cherokee townhouses—especially the sequence of six townhouses at the Coweeta Creek site in southwestern North Carolina—demonstrates an emphasis on continuity in the placement and alignment of public architecture through time. Building and rebuilding these public structures in place, and the placement of burials within these architectural spaces, created enduring attachments between Cherokee towns and the places in which they lived, in the midst of the geopolitical instability created by European contact in eastern North America.

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Este artículo investiga el papel que tuvo la arquitectura pública a la hora de conectar a las comunidades cheroquis con puntos específicos en el entorno natural de los Apalaches del Sur, después del contacto con los europeos en América del Norte. La evidencia documental sobre las estructuras públicas cheroquis, denominadas casas principales (townhouses), indica que eran el lugar donde se llevaban a cabo varios eventos relacionados con la vida pública en las poblaciones cheroquis y que había diversos significados simbólicos asociados con ellas. La evidencia arqueológica de las casas principales cheroquis—especialmente la secuencia de seis casas principales en Coweta Creek, al suroeste de Carolina del Norte—hacen un énfasis en la continuidad de su emplazamiento y del alineamiento de la arquitectura pública a través del tiempo. En medio de la inestabilidad geopolítica producida por el contacto con los europeos en América del Norte, la construcción y reedificación de estas estructuras públicas en el mismo sitio y la ubicación de entierros dentro de estos espacios arquitectónicos, crearon vínculos duraderos entre las poblaciones cheroquis y los lugares que habitaban.

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American Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 627 - 663
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