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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1995,
Mississippian Communities and Households was a foundational text that advanced southeastern archaeology in significant ways and brought household-level archaeology to the forefront of the field. This text revisits and builds on what has been learned in the years since the original volume.
Trade ReviewReconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households successfully updates its namesake, Rogers and Smith's 1995
Mississippian Communities and Households. It will certainly find a wide readership among those interested in social archaeology by bringing together established scholars and up-and-comers in a democratizing publication." - Ramie A. Gougeon, coeditor of
Archaeological Perspectives on the Southern Appalachians: A Multiscalar ApproachTable of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword by Gregory D. Wilson
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser
- Part I. Articulating Communities and Households
- Chapter 1. Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households in Context by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos
- Chapter 2. Making Mounds, Making Mississippian Communities in Southern Illinois by Tamira K. Brennan
- Chapter 3. The Battle Mound Community: Interaction along the Red River and throughout the Caddo Homeland by Duncan P. McKinnon
- Chapter 4. Negotiating Community at Parchman Place, a Mississippian Town in the Northern Yazoo Basin by Erin S. Nelson
- Chapter 5. Mississippian Communities and Households from a Bird's-Eye View by Benjamin A. Steere
- Part II. Coalescing and Conflicting Communities
- Chapter 6. Variability within a Mississippian Community: Houses, Cemeteries, and Corporate Groups at the Town Creek Site in the North Carolina Piedmont by Edmond A. Boudreaux III, Paige A. Ford, and Heidi A. de Gregory
- Chapter 7. Mississippian Communities of Conflict by Meghan E. Buchanan and Melissa R. Baltus
- Part III. Community and Cosmos
- Chapter 8. Households, Communities, and the Early History of Etowah by Adam King
- Chapter 9. Unpacking Storage: Implications for Community-Making during Cahokia's Mississippian Transition by Elizabeth Watts Malouchos and Alleen Betzenhauser
- Chapter 10. The Social Lives and Symbolism of Cherokee Houses and Townhouses by Christopher B. Rodning and Amber R. Thorpe
- Part IV. Movement, Memory, and Histories
- Chapter 11. Moving to Where the River Meets the Sea: Origins of the Mill Cove Complex by Keith Ashley
- Chapter 12. Resilience in Late Moundville's Economy by Jera R. Davis
- Chapter 13. Multiscalar Community Histories in the Lower Chattahoochee River Valley: Migration and Aggregation at Singer-Moye by Stefan Brannan and Jennifer Birch
- Commentary. The Archaeology of Mississippian Communities and Households: Looking Back, Looking Forward by Jason Yaeger
- References Cited
- List of Contributors
- Index
