ABSTRACT

Creation of deathscapes is integral to human place-making and the construction of our past, present, and future. As people practice mortuary rituals and related behaviours, space and time are conflated as they engage with spatial, temporal, and ideological aspects of the landscape, existing deathscapes, and ritual objects. Migration episodes offer an important spatio-temporal context for examining the construction of deathscape, and at the same time, insight into the new deathscape practices can help inform the migration event itself. Through the use of a case study with a well-documented migration event and mortuary program data from the North American midcontinent, we examine the intersections of time and space in the construction of deathscape among the post-migration Oneota tradition (ca. AD 1300–1400). In a contentious landscape dominated by Mississippian peoples, the newcomers created ties to their new location by actively creating and practising new traditions while maintaining important links to their own history.

摘要

创建死亡景观对于人类的场所营造以及我们过去，现在和未来的构建都是不可或缺的。当人们练习葬仪式和相关行为时，由于空间和时间与景观，现有的死亡景观和仪式对象的空间，时间和意识形态方面的联系，因此将时间和空间混为一谈。迁移事件为检查死亡景观的构造提供了重要的时空背景，同时，深入了解新的死亡景观实践可以帮助告知迁移事件本身。通过使用案例研究以及来自北美中部大陆的有据可查的迁徙事件和葬程序数据，我们研究了迁徙后的Oneota传统（约公元1300年– 1400）。