The origins of the primary state are examined, paying particular attention to the interacting
complex chiefdoms that precede state formation. A comparative analysis is undertaken of …

This chapter assesses the impacts of chronic warfare on the everyday lives of people living
in the thirteenth-and fourteenth-century CE Central Illinois River Valley (CIRV) through the …

Abstract The North American prairie-forest border is a major biogeographic boundary
ultimately determined by the macroclimate. Climate variability during the Holocene affected …

This paper employs a practice-based framework for investigating early Mississippian period
culture contact and identity negotiation in the Central Illinois River Valley (CIRV) through the …

Bayesian chronological modeling is used to investigate the chronology of bastioned
palisades during the precolumbian period in the Midwestern and Southeastern United …

We investigated how Mississippian residents of the Central Illinois River Valley (CIRV)
altered their hunting strategies in response to climate change and warfare in the 13th and …

En primer lugar señalamos que la caracterización del conflicto bélico no puede separarse
de las contradicciones sociales (sobre todo internas) que caracterizan el desarrollo de las …

Abstract Cahokia, a UNESCO World Heritage site, was the largest earthen mound center in
North America. Although marine shell beads and maize may seem unrelated, they are …

Much of what is known about the Indigenous city of Cahokia, located in and influential on the
North American midcontinent during the eleventh through fourteenth centuries AD, derives …

Recent geophysical surveys at six sites in the Illinois River Valley (IRV), just north of the
Greater Cahokia area, provide new insights into the region's volatile era of Mississippian …