North American archaeologists must reconsider their implicit adherence to the culture history
paradigm. The long-standing role of this approach to situate archaeological remains in …

Archaeologists have not readily applied collective action and institutional approaches to the
study of hunter-gatherers. This is especially true of the American Southeast. Here, I use a …

A renewed adoption of relational perspectives by archaeologists working in eastern North
America has created an opportunity to move beyond categorical approaches, those reliant …

Issues of labor mobilization for monumental construction are central to inquiries based in
anthropological archaeology in particular as well as collective action theory in general …

Over the past 20 years, archaeologists have grown increasingly interested in exploring the
relationships between humans and things. In part, this focus on materiality has been fueled …

Places such as Poverty Point, Mound City, and Chaco Canyon remind us that the siting of
ritual infrastructure in ancient North America was a matter of cosmological precedent. The …

Dispersal and colonization are among the most important ecological processes for species
persistence as they allow species to track changing environmental conditions. During the …

Archaeologists around the world have shown that LiDAR has the potential to map a wide
range of architectural features built by humans. The ability to map archaeological sites at a …

ABSTRACT The Poverty Point World Heritage Site (ca. 1700–1100 BC) is one of the world's
unique fisher-hunter-gatherer sites. Magnetic gradient surveys of ca. 25 ha together with …

This article offers insights into the organization of Scioto Hopewell craft production and
examines the implications of this organization through the lens of ritual economy. We …