Drought has long been suspected as playing an important role in the abandonment of pre-
Columbian Native American settlements across the midcontinental United States between …

The latest edition of an accessible and comprehensive survey of Native America In this
newly revised third edition of Native America: A History, Michael Leroy Oberg and Peter …

This article reports on recent findings from the ongoing archaeological project at the single-
component early seventeenth-century Huber phase site, Middle Grant Creek (11WI2739) …

Tree-ring reconstructions of the soil moisture balance over North America reveal several,
region-wide, multi-decadal droughts impacted the northern Lower Mississippi Valley …

Abstract “Diaspora” is typically used in reference to large-scale population dispersals across
borders of modern nation-states. This concept has particular connotations with regard to …

The origins and rise of Cahokia as an urban polity have increasingly been attributed to
religion by those who study the past. For the most part those religious forces have been …

This paper employs concepts from Bourdieu's theory of social fields and contemporary
research on transnationalism to explore the complicated history of population movement …

We explore the population history of Cahokia relative to local and regional climatological
conditions to better understand the factors that may have contributed to the migration of …

Although not often discussed in an archaeological context, religion plays an important role in
human migrations by working as an anchor of collective identity and distinction among the …

Around AD 1050 at Cahokia, a sudden coalescence of peoples with new ceremonials and
Mound 72's commemorative human interments provide evidence of long–distance contacts …