F. Kent III (editor) Reilly

This book is an important and useful volume for anyone interested in the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC).

The book starts with an introduction by the editors, calling for a new term to replace the troubled SECC concept. Specifically, they argue for a Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS) as a replacement.

The papers that follow the introduction primarily consist of syntheses of SECC (or MIIS) motifs (Petaloid and assorted cosmological), characters and themes (birdman, great serpent, war trophies, and moth/butterfly), and styles (Braden), followed by an application of oral traditions to Cahokian archaeological data by Alice B. Kehoe.… (altro)