Interest in the study of foodways through an archaeological lens, particularly in the American
Southeast, is evident in the abundance of literature on this topic over the past decade …

Archaeologists have struggled to combine remotely sensed datasets with preexisting
information for landscape-level analyses. In the American Southeast, for example, analyses …

Analyses of archaeological bone tool assemblages from the southeastern United States rely
principally on morphological classification systems to delineate typologies and infer artifact …

Abstract Cahokia, a UNESCO World Heritage site, was the largest earthen mound center in
North America. Although marine shell beads and maize may seem unrelated, they are …

Shell beads were important to Mississippians, and thousands of beads were found mostly
associated with burials. Here I synthesize data on shell bead workshops from Greater …

Artifacts made from sinistral (left-handed) whelk shells are commonly found at inland
archaeological sites in eastern North America. Past attempts to source the coast of origin of …

This research will address how the monumental organization of Kincaid Mounds was put
together through time. The measurable variability in the potential performative presentation …

Around AD 1050 at Cahokia, a sudden coalescence of peoples with new ceremonials and
Mound 72's commemorative human interments provide evidence of long–distance contacts …

The Middle Cumberland River Valley (MCRV) of Tennessee comprises a unique regional
environment that has continually supported human occupation along the natural river levees …

ABSTRACT Tick Island Incised (TII) is a relatively rare variety of Late Archaic fiber-tempered
pottery found across sections of central and northern peninsular Florida. The striking stylistic …