Нодена

Нодена около 1539 г., художник Херб (Эронимус) Рау (Herb Roe).

Фигурный сосуд в виде головы человека, найден в Нодене, музей Хэмпсона (Hampson Museum)

Сосуд из Нодены

Нодена — археологический памятник в США, расположенный в округе Миссисипи штата Арканзас к востоку от города Уилсон в штате Арканзас и к северо-востоку от города Ревери в штате Теннеси. Около 1400—1650 гг. здесь существовало поселение индейцев, окружённое палисадом, на изгибе реки Миссисипи. В 1964 г. Нодена включена в список Национальных исторических памятников США, а в 1966 г. в Национальный реестр исторических мест.

Нодену обнаружил и впервые документировал археолог-любитель Джеймс К. Хэмпсон, владелец плантации, где был расположен этот памятник. Найденные им артефакты представлены в Хэмпсоновском государственном парке-музее в г. Уилсон, Арканзас.

Памятник Нодена является типовым для Ноденской фазы североамериканской истории. По мнению ряда историков, именно здесь проживало племя пакаха, с которым встретился испанский путешественник Эрнандо де Сото в 1542 году.

В 1900 г. к югу от Нодены был обнаружен скелет мастодонта.

Культура жителей Нодены

Нодена — типичный памятник позднего этапа миссисипской культуры component, который назван в честь него «фаза Нодены» (около 1400—1700 гг.). В этот период возникла группа поселений (например, Икер en:Eaker Site) вдоль реки Миссисипи между границей штата Арканзас и озером Вампанокка. Культура Нодены существовала одновременно с комплексом Менард-Ходжес en:Menard-Hodges Site, культурой Уоллс en:Walls Phase и культурой Паркин-парка. В начале 1540-х годов испанская экспедиция Эрнандо де Сото, как предполагается, посетила несколько поселений в окрестностях Нодены, принадлежащих племени пакаха, а также Паркин, где обитало конкурирущее племя каски. Nodena people were part of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, an extensive religious and trade network that brought chert, whelk shells, and other exotic goods to the site.

Керамика

Most pottery found at the Nodena Site is of the kind known as Missisippian Bell Plain. It was buff colored, contains large fragments of ground mussel shell as a tempering agent, and isn’t as smooth and polished as other varieties. Other kinds found there are much finer, with a finer ground shell as a temper, some instances being so finely ground as to look untempered. The Nodena Phase people put a bowl and a bottle into a grave with the bodies, usually of the finer variety of pottery. Shapes and decoration were varied in the mortuary pottery, from brighly colored abstract spiral designs, to elaborate effigy vessels depicting human heads, animals, and hunters and their prey. Pottery made by the Nodena people was built up from strips of clay, and then smoothed out by the potter, much like other pottery in the Eastern America area where the potters wheel was unknown. Slips using galena for white, hematite for red, and sometimes graphite for black were used to paint the pottery, with a red on white swastika design being particularly popular. Sometimes incising was used (an example is the incised raptor image on the effigy head pot pictured), although it is rare in Nodena pottery.

Деформация черепа

Картина художника Пола Кейна, изображающая чинукскую женщину с деформированным черепом и младенца в колыбели с устройством для деформации черепа

Люди из Нодены практиковали искусственную деформацию черепа. Вскоре после рождения ребёнка к его голове привязывали специально приспособление, которое приводило к деформации черепа по мере роста ребёнка. Many of the skeletal remains found at the Nodena Site had deformed skulls, of the type defined as fronto-occipital deformation, flattening of the forehead and the back of the head. Of 123 skulls found by Dr. Hampson, only six could be considered «normal», meaning they did not show the signs of head deformation. The functioning of the brain is not affected by cranial deformation, but the overall shape of the skull bones are. This practice was performed by many Native American tribes into historic times, including the Choctaw, although it later fell out of favor.

Сельское хозяйство и рацион

The people of Nodena were intensely involved in maize agriculture, as well as other food crops originating in the Americas, such as beans, squash, sunflowers and gourds. They also gathered wild foodstuffs such as pecans and persimmons. The de Soto choroniclers described the area as being under heavy cultivation, and the most populous they had seen in La Florida. The Spaniards described groves of wild fruit and nut bearing trees, implying that the Nodena must have left them standing when clearing other trees for the cultivation of maize. The hunting of whitetail deer, squirrel, rabbit, turkey, and mallard was practiced as well as fishing for alligator gar, catfish, drum, and mussels.

Language

The peoples of Nodena were probably Tunican or Siouan speaking. It is known that the Tunica were in the area at the time of the de Soto Entrada, and the related group of phases present in the region may have all been Tunican speakers, with Caddoan speakers to their west and south. But by the time of later European contact in the 1670s and the beginning of the historic period, the area was occupied by the Dhegiha Siouan speaking Quapaw. Attempts have been made to connect pottery styles and words from the de Soto narratives with historic tribes, but have so far been unsuccessful.

Ссылки

• Animation: Towns and Temples of the Mississippian Culture-5 Sites
• Photographs of stone and shell artifacts and of pottery from the Nodena site
• Hampson 3D Virtual Museum — View and Interact with hundreds of 3D Nodena artifacts from the Hampson Museum