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Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization located in modern day Illinois near St. Louis While Mayan and Aztec ci...
In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed ...
Using a wealth of archaeological evidence, this book outlines the development of Mississippian civilization....
Unlike extant texts, this textbook treats pre-Columbian Native Americans as history makers who yet matter in our contemporary world....
Rethinking Agency and Religion in Ancient America
An Archaeology of the Cosmos seeks answers to two fundamental questions of humanity and human history. The first question concerns that which some use...
Cahokia and Mississippian Politics in Native North America
Provides a theoretical explanation of how prehistoric Cahokia became a stratified society Considering Cahokia in terms of class struggle, Pauketat cla...
How Climate Change, Travel, and Spirituality Reshaped Precolonial America
A sweeping account of Medieval North America when Indigenous peoples confronted climate change. Few Americans today are aware of one of the most conse...
Social Inequality and the Native Elites of Southeastern North America
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The Tract 15A and Dunham Tract Excavations
"The information, interpretations, and conclusions presented in this volume represent only one small portion of the outpouring of new ideas that have ...
Preston Holder's 1955–1956 Excavations of Kunnemann Mound
Preston Holder, a brilliant iconoclast, excavated these mounds in 1955. Decades later, the excavation still stands as one of the best-documented major...
Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World
About one thousand years ago, Native Americans built hundreds of earthen platform mounds, plazas, residential areas, and other types of monuments in t...
Just a few miles west of Collinsville, Illinois lies the remains of the most sophisticated prehistoric native civilizations north of Mexico. Cahokia M...
An Early Mississippian Center in the American Bottom (11-S-49)
One of the few documented excavations at an American Bottom single-mound Mississippian temple town that has provided revealing insights into town orga...
Agency and History Before and After Columbus
"At last, southeastern archaeology as history of people, not just 'cultures'."--Patricia Galloway, Mississippi Department of Archives and History Rich...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...