This book in the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series represents a period-by-period
synthesis of southeastern prehistory designed for high school and college students …

Archaeologists, ethnohistorians, osteologists, and cultural anthropologists have only
recently begun to address seriously the issue of Native American war and peace in the …

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 …

In recent years the pace of research on the late prehistoric Mississippian societies of eastern
North America has accelerated. New data, methods, and theoretical goals are changing …

In this paper I highlight the potential of social memory research to enhance our
archaeological understanding of Mississippian social organization and identity politics …

Archaeologists often portray Cahokia as the center of a chiefdom. A minority view is that
Cahokia was the center of a state. These competing views are considered here, and an …

Cahokia's cultural influence altered patterns of social organization throughout the Midwest,
and this complex historical process warrants further interregional research. Ramey Incised …

Theories of the development of complex societies often equate the production of surpluses
with centralized political economies. Most descriptions of economic intensification within …

Ancient Complex Societies examines the archaeological evidence for the rise and
functioning of politically and socially “complex” cultures in antiquity. Particular focus is given …

Lithic artifacts made on Burlington chert from the Carson site in northwest Mississippi were
geochemically measured using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF). Burlington chert is …