Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World (Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)

by George E. Lankford

Many of these eleventh- and twelfth-century sites were burial mound clusters with little if any resident population. The vacant ritual center often included mounds in varying states of use, including a council house, a bundle burial storage/charnel house, and a mound burial chamber