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Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (formerly Southern Cult, Southern Death Cult or Buzzard Cult), abbreviated S.E.C.C., is the name given by modern scholars to the regional stylistic similarity of artifacts, iconography, ceremonies, and mythology of the Mississippian culture.
Jul 28, 2019 · The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC) is what archaeologists have called a broad regional similarity of artifacts, iconography, ceremonies, and mythology of the Mississippian period in North America between about 1000 and 1600 CE.
The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, often referred to as the Southern Death Cult or Southern Cult, had a wide-reaching influence across most of the eastern United States. It marked the abandonment of Middle Woodland mound building and embraced Gordon Willey’s Temple Mound II period.
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Chronology, Content, Contest. A timely, comprehensive reevaluation of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex. One of the most venerable concepts in Southeastern archaeology is that of the Southern Cult.
Jan 1, 2021 · A complex consisting of a range of specialized artifacts and motifs found in mortuaries and rich burials at some of the principal sites of the Middle Mississippi Culture (Mississippian) in southeastern North America.
The venerable concept of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECO needs to be discarded, because it has become an impediment to understanding. The phenomena to which this name most commonly refers are not necessarily Southeastern, not focused primarily on the ceremonial, and most emphatically are not a "complex" in any meaningful sense.
Chronology, Content, Contest. A timely, comprehensive reevaluation of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex. One of the most venerable concepts in Southeastern archaeology is that of the ...
