Bioarcheology has made tremendous strides since the subdiscipline's inception,
subsequent syntheses, the standardization of data collection methods, and analytical …

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 …

Archaeological investigations at the Trempealeau and Fisher Mounds Site Complexes in
western Wisconsin have provided definitive evidence of settlements and platform mounds in …

Maize fragments recovered from the Middle Woodland Holding site (11MS118) in the
American Bottom have for several decades been recognized as the oldest directly dated …

This article evaluates the current state of paleoethnobotany since Hastorf's 1999 review
published in this journal. We discuss advances in methods, ancient subsistence …

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 …

Archaeological and isotopic evidence from Greater Cahokia and several prominent outlier
sites argues against simple diaspora models either for the rise or fall of this pre-Columbian …

Case Studies in Paleoethnobotany focuses on interpretation in paleoethnobotany. In it the
reader is guided through the process of analyzing archaeobotanical data and of using that …

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 …

Abstract During the Middle Woodland period, from 200 BC to AD 600, southeastern societies
erected monuments, interacted widely, and produced some of the most striking material …