Architectural Variability in the Southeast

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Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xi 1. Introduction to Architectural Variability in the Southeast Cameron H. Lacquement 1 2. Evidence of Curved Roof Construction in Mississippian Structures Nelson A. Reed 12 3. An Experimental Perspective on Mississippian Small Pole Structures Dennis B. Blanton and Thomas H. Gresham 32 4. Typology, Chronology, and Technological Changes of Mississippian Domestic Architecture in West-Central Alabama Cameron H. Lacquement 49 5. In-Ground Evidence of Above-Ground Architecture at Kincaid Mounds Tamira K. Brennan 73 6. A Comparison of Burned Mississippian Houses from Illinois Mark A. McConaughy 101 7. A WPA Déjà Vu on Mississippian Architecture Lynne P. Sullivan 117 8. An Architectural Grammar of Late Mississippian Houses in Northwest Georgia Ramie A. Gougeon 136 9. A Mississippian Sweat Lodge Robert H. Lafferty, III 153 10. Interpreting Changes in Historic Creek Household Architecture at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century Robert J. Scott 166 11. Conclusions: Taking Architecture Seriously Vernon J. Knight, Jr. 186 References Cited 193 Contributors 215 Index 219 vi Contents ...