Platform mounds and plazas have a 5000-year-long history in the eastern United States but
are often viewed through the lens of late prehistoric and early historic understandings of …

The distribution of mounds, plazas, and defensive palisades associated with Cahokia
Mounds State Historic Site (CMSHS) defines the core urban environment of Eastern North …

The origins and histories of mounds are perennial topics of investigation in the American
Southeast, underscoring the centrality of these monuments to the social lives and …

Hafting is an important part of lithic technology that can increase our understanding of
socioeconomic behavior in the past. In this article, we develop a holistic approach to …

Roughly two centuries separate the appearance of the first sedentary villages in the central
Mississippi Valley's American Bottom region and the rapid consolidation of populations circa …

Archaeologists in the Eastern Woodlands have only begun to address the senses directly in
their work, yet the colour of earth, the oppressive silence of the council houses, the echo of …

Earthen modifications to create level plaza areas at mound sites in the Southeast US date
back to the late Woodland period and appear to have been substantial community …

With this research, I study if and how places and materials are socially constructed and
community members in the establishment of community identities. My analysis of …

This research investigates expressions of group identity and social cohesion at the
Moundville Archaeological site, a large Mississippian mound center in the Black Warrior …

Abstract The Northwest Coast of Florida is dotted by Woodland Period sites that speak to the
richness and complexity of the populations in that region. Mound Field (8Wa8), located in …