Question: What type of publication is The Nation, published in the United States with political and cultural news and Humbug edited by Harvey Kurtzman which features various artifacts of popular culture?

Context articles: Joe Bell Site
The Nation
Mad (magazine)
Harvey Kurtzman
Frontline Combat
Trump (magazine)
Humbug (magazine)
Anderson Mounds
Ray B. Browne
Marshall Fishwick

The Joe Bell Site (9MG28) is an archaeological site located in Morgan County, Georgia underneath Lake Oconee, but prior to the 1970s, it was located south of the mouth of the Apalachee River on the western bank of the Oconee River.
 The junction of these two rivers could be seen from the site.
 This site was first visited by Marshall Williams in 1968 at the suggestion of the site’s landowner, Joe Bell, who had discovered various artifacts while the site was being regularly plowed.
 Because of Interstate construction, Marshall Williams and Mark Williams discovered this site during surface surveys and excavations of the plowed areas.
 The site was excavated and analyzed by Mark Williams as part of his PhD dissertation.
 During the 1969 excavations, four areas within the site were designated for excavation.
 In Areas 1-3 various five foot square units were excavated.
 No excavations were done in Area 4 in 1969.
 Large quantities of small potsherds were discovered during these excavations, and they ranged from the Duvall Phase in Area 1 to Bell Phase in Areas 2-4.
 As part of the 1969 excavations, a road grading machine took off the topsoil of twelve strips on the site.
 This uncovered Features 1 and 2, and they were completely excavated.
 In 1977, the site was revisited by Marshall Williams and Mark Williams.
 Since various plans threatened this site, major excavations took place from June 15, 1977 until September 16, 1977 by Mark Williams.
 Most of the work centered on Area 2 or the Bell Phase portion of the site.
 The Bell Phase portion of this site was probably no more the 1.5 acres .
 Because of time constraints, only 17 of 55 features were excavated, and no more than a handful of the 1100 posts were excavated.
 A few trips were made back to the site the following year with the help of volunteers, and approximately 80% of the area stripped by heavy machinery was mapped.
 Some of the features were trash features that consisted of a circular pit filled with food residues and pottery sherds.
 Evidence of a large circular structure or rotunda was found at the site.
 It was the social, political, and religious center for the inhabitants.
 A large quantity of the features was small, circular, semi-subterranean structures that were probably used as sleeping quarters on cold nights.
 Another structure found was warm weather structures.
 One major trash feature was found that had been deposited in a single episode and was burned during or after deposition.
 Numerous sherds were found in this pit, and a large number of reconstructable vessels were present.
 Ethnohistoric literature of the Southeast suggests that this feature was formed during a Busk or Green Corn ceremony.
 The ceremony has been described as the physical cleansing of the town.
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, and the most widely read weekly journal of liberal/progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.
 It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's "The Liberator", with the stated mission tomake an earnest effort to bring to the discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is marred.It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.
 and associated with The Nation Institute.
Mad (very often stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine founded in 1952 by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, launched as a comic book before it became a magazine.
 It was widely imitated and influential, affecting satirical media, as well as the cultural landscape of the 20th century, with editor Al Feldstein increasing readership to more than two million during its 1974 circulation peak.
 As of January 2017, "Mad" has published 544 regular issues, as well as hundreds of reprint "Specials", original material paperbacks, compilation books and other print projects.
Harvey Kurtzman ( ; October 3, 1924 – February 21, 1993) was an American cartoonist and editor.
 His best-known work includes writing and editing the parodic comic book "Mad" from 1952 until 1956, and writing the "Little Annie Fanny" strips in "Playboy" from 1962 until 1988.
 His work is noted for its satire and parody of popular culture, social critique, and attention to detail.
 Kurtzman's working method has been likened to that of an auteur, and he expected those who illustrated his stories to follow his layouts strictly.
Frontline Combat was an anthology war comic book written and edited by Harvey Kurtzman and published bi-monthly by EC Comics.
 The first issue was cover dated July/August, 1951.
 It ran for 15 issues over three years, and ended with the January, 1954 issue.
 Publication was discontinued following a decline in sales attributed to the end of the Korean War.
 The title was a companion to Kurtzman's comic book "Two-Fisted Tales".
 Both titles depicted the horrors of war realistically and in great detail, exposing what Kurtzman saw as the truth about war without glamorizing or idealizing it.
Trump was a glossy magazine of satire and humor, mostly in the forms of comics features and short stories.
 It was edited by Harvey Kurtzman and published by Hugh Hefner, with only two issues produced in 1957.
 The first issue appeared in January 1957.
 The magazine's mascot was a trumpeter herald in the style of John Tenniel's "Alice in Wonderland" illustrations.
Humbug was a humor magazine edited 1957–1958 by Harvey Kurtzman with satirical jabs at movies, television, advertising and various artifacts of popular culture, from cereal boxes to fashion photographs.
 Nine of the eleven issues were published in a black-and-white comic book-sized format.
Anderson Mounds, part of Mounds State Park and, located near Anderson, Indiana, is a burial site that developed out of the Hopewell culture.
 These earthworks were created as a dedication to the Sun God and Earth Mother, and the mounds were used as gathering places for religious ceremonies as well as viewing astronomical alignments.
 The Great Mound is the largest of the ten earthworks in the Mounds State Park, and its construction dates back between 250 and 160 B.C.
 The three floors of the Great Mound were created by a repeated process that included adding a layer of subsoil, burning the ground, then covering the floor in a layer of powdered white calcite, made from bone, shell, and limestone.
 This gave the floor a clay consistency as well as deep purple color.
 Each floor had basins and pits of unknown purposes, however near the gateway of the mound platform, a large pit was found containing various artifacts.
 These artifacts included chipped stone, flakes, burned bone, a fragment of shell, fragments of mica, and burned clay chunks.
 Built above this pit was a log tomb, called so because the floor of the tomb was laid with logs.
 When excavated, two human burials were found inside the tomb; a 50-year-old adult male, and the redeposited partial remains of a cremated individual.
 Also, artifacts such as a limestone platform pipe, flakes, fire-cracked rocks, mica fragments, pottery, burned and unburned bone, and seven deer bone awls were found in the tomb.
 100 years after the mound was started, the construction of the Great Mound's platform was started.
 Although the embankment appears random and irregular, it was actually carefully crafted.
 The only other aboriginal features on the platform were numerous small post holes encircling the top.
 These holes most likely held a brush fence erected to hide activities carried out on the platform.
 After the mound was completed, several more pits were dug, some of them spanning from the surface to the lowest floor.
 One pit was possibly looted, while two other pits contained human burials.
 No other artifacts were found in these pits.
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Ray Broadus Browne ( ; January 15, 1922 – October 22, 2009), was an American educator, author, and founder of the academic study of popular culture in the United States.
 He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in Bowling Green, Ohio.
 He founded the first (and only) academic Department of Popular Culture at BGSU in 1972, and is the founding editor of the "Journal of Popular Culture", the "Journal of American Culture", and the Popular Press (a university-based press that published hundreds of books on popular culture).
 He also founded the Library for Popular Culture Studies (BPCL) at BGSU (which today bears his name), the Popular Culture Association, and the American Culture Association.
 His particular area of specialization was American popular literature, and he was an authority on Herman Melville, Mark Twain, the popular culture surrounding Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War, and the influence of Shakespeare on American popular music.
Marshall William Fishwick (July 5, 1923 – May 22, 2006) was an American multidisciplinary scholar, professor, writer, and editor who started the academic movement known as popular culture studies and established the journal "International Popular Culture".
 In 1970 he cofounded the Popular Culture Association with Ray B. Browne and Russel B. Nye, and the three worked to shape a new academic discipline that blurred the traditional distinctions between high and low culture, focusing on mass culture mediums like television and the Internet and cultural archetypes like comic book heroes.
 In an academic career of more than fifty years, Fishwick wrote or edited more than forty books, including works on popular culture, Virginia history, and American studies.