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Illustrations Figures 1.1. Location of Fort Ancient and neighboring Upper Mississippian and Middle Mississippian cultures 2 1.2. Chronologies for culture historical units located within the study area 3 1.3. Middle Mississippian/Fort Ancient boundary and the “periphery peer” model of village interaction 6 1.4. SunWatch site map 12 1.5. Proposed solar alignments 15 1.6. Interfeature pottery and lithic refits and proposed dual division 18 2.1. Middle and Upper Mississippian site concentrations 23 2.2. Middle Mississippian village plans 28 2.3. Original definition of the Fort Ancient region 35 3.1. Seriation of triangular projectile point attributes at selected Fort Ancient sites with counterparts in the SunWatch assemblage 43 3.2. Pottery illustrations showing key design fields and vessel forms represented at SunWatch 45 3.3. Selections of Middle Mississippian–style negative-painted pottery from SunWatch 47 3.4. Incised designs on SunWatch pottery necks 48 3.5. Whelk shell and a shell disc from SunWatch 50 3.6. Generalized model for lineal descent in mortuary and residential patterning 55 4.1. Radiocarbon dates associated with houses, pit features, and postholes at SunWatch 62 4.2. House-rebuilding map based on posthole density and daub distribution in pit features 64 4.3. Histogram of pit feature depths 66 4.4. Histogram of pit feature volumes 67 4.5. Scatterplot of pit feature volumes and associated radiocarbon dates 68 4.6. Correspondence analysis biplot comparing feature forms and selected diagnostic artifact attributes 69 4.7. Map showing division of site into four house clusters and associated feature areas 71 4.8. Correspondence analysis biplot comparing feature forms and four house clusters 73 4.9. Correspondence analysis biplots comparing selected artifact attributes in pit features associated with four house clusters 74 4.10. Map showing division of site into 26 analytical pit feature groups 79 4.11. Maps showing distribution of diagnostic pit feature and artifact attributes in analytical pit feature groups 80 4.12. Map displaying the spatial and diachronic relationship between houses, analytical pit feature groups, and medium-distance pottery refits 85 4.13. Correspondence analysis biplots comparing selected artifact attributes in pit features associated with the 26 analytical pit feature groups 86 4.14. Map showing locations of burial groups in relation to houses and analytical pit feature groups 91 4.15. Internal spatial structures of the six arc-row burial groups 93 4.16. Correspondence analysis biplot comparing burial groups with body position, sex, and grave covering 95 4.17. Map showing the spatial and diachronic relationship between houses, analytical pit feature groups, medium-distance pottery refits, and burial groups 97 4.18. Map showing the spatial and diachronic relationship between houses, analytical pit feature groups, and long-distance pottery refits 99 4.19. Spatial relationship between shell discs and straight-sided storage pits 102 x / Illustrations 4.20. Spatial distribution of negative-painted pottery and wolf and dog remains in burials and pit features 103 5.1. Map showing the 125-foot radius circle discovered through distance analysis and the location of large houses 107 5.2. Bar graph showing range of house areas 108 5.3. Bar graphs showing mean wall posthole depths and diameters for houses 109 5.4. Bar graph comparing pit features and houses in terms of respective sizes and frequencies in four house clusters 111 5.5. Proposed storage structure located along the winter solstice alignment 112 5.6. Spatial distributions of burial clusters 119 5.7. Mortuary relationships between the southern and western portions of the village 122 6.1. Fort Ancient site locations used in the regional comparison 126 6.2. Maps showing the distribution of Fort Ancient sites sample by time period 133 6.3. Map of the Anderson site 135 6.4. Map of the northern portion of the Madisonville site 137 6.5. Maps comparing Campbell Island, Horseshoe Johnson, and Wegerzyn 138 7.1. Map of SunWatch village social structure and development 149 7.2. Reconstructed views of the SunWatch site and two Middle Mississippian villages 153 Tables 4.1. General Feature and Artifact Class Characteristics for Four House Clusters 72 4.2. Summary of the Occurrence of Later Attribute Diagnostics by Pit Feature Groups 82 4.3. Selection of Artifact Occurrences in Pit Features with Associated Radiocarbon Dates 88 4.4. Burial Group Form and Interment Frequencies and Percentages 92 Illustrations / xi 5.1. Occurrence of Artifact Types Used in the Five-Cluster Solution for Burials 115 5.2...