Contents
Figures 000
Tables 000
Preface and Acknowledgments 000
1. Big Mounds, Big Rings, Big Power
Jon L. Gibson and Philip J. Carr 000
2. Late Archaic Fisher-Foragers in the ApalachicolaLower
Chattahoochee Valley, Northwest FloridaSouth Georgia/Alabama
Nancy Marie White 000
3. Measuring Shell Rings for Social Inequality
Michael Russo 000
4. Regional-Scale Interaction Networks and the Emergence of
Cultural Complexity along the Northern Margins of the Southeast
Richard W. Jefferies 000
5. The Green River in Comparison to the Lower Mississippi Valley
during the Archaic: To Build Mounds or Not to Build Mounds?
George M. Crothers 000
6. Cultural Complexity in the Middle Archaic of Mississippi
Samuel O. Brookes 000
7. The Burkett Site (23MI20): Implications for Cultural
Complexity and Origins
Prentice M. Thomas, Jr., L. Janice Campbell, and James R.
Morehead 000
8. Poverty Point Chipped-Stone Tool Raw Materials: Inferring
Social and Economic Strategies
Philip J. Carr and Lee H. Stewart 000
9. Are We Fixing to Make the Same Mistake Again?
Joe Saunders 000
10. Surrounding the Sacred: Geometry and Design of Early Mound
Groups as Meaning and Function
John E. Clark 000
11. Crossing the Symbolic Rubicon in the Southeast
Kenneth E. Sassaman and Michael J. Heckenberger 000
12. Explaining Sociopolitical Complexity in the Foraging
Adaptations of the Southeastern United States: The Roles of
Demography, Kinship, and Ecology in Sociocultural Evolution
Randolph J. Widmer 000
13. The Power of Beneficent Obligation in First MoundBuilding
Societies
Jon L. Gibson 000
14. Archaic Mounds and the Archaeology of Southeastern Tribal
Societies
David G. Anderson 000
15. Old Mounds, Ancient Hunter-Gatherers, and Modern
Archaeologists
George R. Milner 000
References Cited 000
Contributors 000
Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Mounds Southern States, Indians of North America Southern States Antiquities
