The Mann Phase
Hopewell Culture in Southwestern Indiana
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Mann site in southwestern Indiana, which dates to 200‒600 CE and is one of the most consequential but enigmatic archaeological sites of the Middle Woodland period.
An Archaeology of Woodland Transformation
Social Movements, Identities, and Pottery Production on the Gulf Coast
In this book, Jessica Jenkins provides a detailed look at the transition from the Middle to Late Woodland periods in the Lower Suwannee region of Florida’s Gulf Coast, drawing on ceramic analysis techniques to explore a period of transformative change.
Mississippian Women
This volume highlights the vital role women played within the diverse societies of the Mississippian world, which spanned the present-day United States South to the Midwest before the seventeenth century.
Taíno Indian Myth and Practice
The Arrival of the Stranger King
Unearthing the Missions of Spanish Florida
This volume presents new data and interpretations from research at Florida’s Spanish missions, drawing on the past thirty years of work at sites from St. Augustine to the panhandle.
Methods, Mounds, and Missions
New Contributions to Florida Archaeology
New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery
Exploring various methodological and theoretical approaches to pre-Columbian visual culture, the essays in this volume reconstruct dynamic accounts of Native American history across the U.S. Southeast.
Falls of the Ohio River
Archaeology of Native American Settlement
Falls of the Ohio River presents current archaeological research on an important landscape feature of what is now Louisville, Kentucky, demonstrating how humans and the environment mutually affected each other in the area for the past 12,000 years.
A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism
Finding Meaning in Elevated Ground
This book presents a temporally and geographically broad yet detailed history of an important form of Native American architecture, the platform mound, revealing unexpected continuities in moundbuilding over many thousands of years.
The Historical Turn in Southeastern Archaeology
This volume uses case studies to capture the recent emphasis on history in archaeological reconstructions of America’s deep past, representing a profound shift in thinking about precolonial and colonial history and helping to erase the false divide between ancient and contemporary America.
The Making of Mississippian Tradition
Christina Friberg investigates the influence of Cahokia, the largest city of North America’s Mississippian culture between AD 1050 and 1350, on smaller communities throughout the midcontinent. This book offers a new, more nuanced interpretation of how and why Mississippian lifeways developed.
Archaeology in Dominica
Everyday Ecologies and Economies at Morne Patate
This volume examines the everyday lives of enslaved and free workers at Morne Patate, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Caribbean plantation, helping document the under-represented history of slavery and colonialism on the edge of the British Empire.