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Using fresh evidence and nontraditional ideas, the contributing authors of Mississippian Beginnings reconsider the origins of the Mississippian culture of the North American Midwest and Southeast (A.D. 1000–1600). Challenging the decades-old opinion that this culture evolved similarly across isolated Woodland populations, they discuss signs of migrations, missionization, pilgrimages, violent conflicts, long-distance exchange, and other far-flung entanglements that now appear to have shaped the early Mississippian past. Presenting recent fieldwork from a wide array of sites including Cahokia and the American Bottom, archival studies, and new investigations of legacy collections, the contributors interpret results through contemporary perspectives that emphasize agency and historical contingency. They track the various ways disparate cultures across a sizeable swath of the continent experienced Mississippianization and came to share similar architecture, pottery, subsistence strategies, sociopolitical organization, iconography, and religion. Together, these essays provide the most comprehensive examination of early Mississippian culture in over thirty years. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series

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  1. Cover
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  1. Half Title, Series Info, Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. List of Figures
  2. pp. vii-ix
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  1. List of Tables
  2. p. x
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  1. 1. Mississippian Origins: From Emergence to Beginnings
  2. Gregory D. Wilson, Lynne P. Sullivan
  3. pp. 1-28
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  1. 2. Maize and Mississippian Beginnings
  2. Amber M. VanDerwarker, Dana N. Bardolph, C. Margaret Scarry
  3. pp. 29-70
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  1. 3. Cahokia’s Beginnings: Mobility, Urbanization, and the Cahokian Political Landscape
  2. Alleen Betzenhauser
  3. pp. 71-96
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  1. 4. The Mississippianization of the Illinois and Apple River Valleys
  2. Gregory D. Wilson, Colleen M. Delaney, Phillip G. Millhouse
  3. pp. 97-129
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  1. 5. Mississippian Processes and Histories: The Evolution of Fort Ancient Culture in the Miami Valleys
  2. Robert A. Cook
  3. pp. 130-177
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  1. 6. The Relationship between Becoming Caddo and Becoming Mississippian in the Middle Red River Drainage
  2. Amanda Regnier
  3. pp. 178-202
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  1. 7. Early Mississippian in the North Carolina Piedmont
  2. Edmond A. Boudreaux III
  3. pp. 203-233
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  1. 8. The Hollywood Site (9RI1) and the Foundations of Mississippian in the Middle Savannah River Valley
  2. Adam King, Christopher L. Thornock, Keith Stephenson
  3. pp. 234-259
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  1. 9. Fort Walton Mississippian Beginnings in the Apalachicola–Lower Chattahoochee River Valley of Northwest Florida, Southwest Georgia, and Southeast Alabama
  2. Jeffrey P. Du Vernay, Nancy Marie White
  3. pp. 260-292
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  1. 10. Mississippian Beginnings: Multiple Perspectives on Migration, Monumentality, and Religion in the Prehistoric Eastern United States
  2. David G. Anderson
  3. pp. 293-322
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  1. List of Contributors
  2. pp. 323-326
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 327-332
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  1. Further Series Titles
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