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Illustrations Figures 1.1. The Moundville site (GIS representation), featuring the Roadway, Riverbank, and North of Mound R excavations 2 2.1. Early Mississippian mound centers in the northern Black Warrior Valley 19 2.2. The Moundville site, showing the mounds, central plaza, and palisade wall 20 3.1. Drawing of the relationship between excavation blocks and the Roadway 31 3.2. The Moundville site, featuring contexts from which pottery assemblages were examined 33 3.3. Mississippian period chronology for the Black Warrior Valley 35 3.4. Boxplots of unburnished jar handles from Moundville contexts, displaying the distribution of handle width measurement ratios 42 3.5. Multidimensional scaling of Roadway, Riverbank, and North of Mound R assemblages 44 3.6. Ford’s method seriation of Roadway structures by architectural style and unburnished jar rims by context 46 4.1. Histogram of structure floor areas from the Moundville Roadway and Riverbank 51 4.2. Boxplot comparing structure floor areas from early Moundville I and late Moundville I–early Moundville II architectural groups 52 4.3. A Class I structure from the Museum Parking Area 53 4.4. Length-to-width ratios for Class I and Class II structures 55 4.5. Palimpsest of Class II and III structures between Roadway blocks 47+50 and 49+00 56 4.6. Excavation photograph of superimposed structures between Roadway blocks 47+50 and 49+00 57 4.7. Two Class II structures superimposed by Moundville II and III burials 58 4.8. Post-mold density display highlighting Residential Groups 1 and 10 60 4.9. Post-mold density display highlighting Residential Groups 8 and 9 61 4.10. Residential groups identified in the Moundville Roadway and Riverbank excavations 62 4.11. Residential Group 1 (2+50 to 7+50 and Museum Parking Area) 63 4.12. Residential Groups 2 (12+00 to 14+00) and 3 (15+00 to 15+50) 64 4.13. Residential Group 4 (17+50 to 24+50) 66 4.14. Superimposed structures located in Roadway blocks 17+50 to 24+50 67 4.15. GIS representation of superimposed structures located in Roadway blocks 17+50 to 24+50 68 4.16. Residential Group 5 (26+00 to 34+00) 69 4.17. Residential Group 6 (35+50 to 37+60) 70 4.18. Residential Group 7 (Administration Building) 71 4.19. Residential Group 8 (43+50 to 46+50) 72 4.20. Residential Group 9 (47+50 to 49+00) 72 4.21. Residential Group 10 (66+00 to 72+00) 73 4.22. Residential Groups 11 (PA tract) and 12 (ECB tract) 74 4.23. Use-life occupation estimate technique applied to Residential Group 7 82 4.24. Calibrated Moundville I chronology with the total number of structure building episodes per subphase 84 4.25. Structure floor areas from the southern and northern portions of the Moundville Roadway 85 4.26. Structure floor areas from the eastern and western portions of the Moundville Roadway 86 4.27. Model of diachronic occupational changes in Residential Group 1 88 4.28. Model of diachronic occupational changes in Residential Groups 2 and 3 89 4.29. Model of diachronic occupational changes in Residential Group 5 90 4.30. Model of diachronic occupational changes in Residential Group 9 91 4.31. Model of diachronic occupational changes in Residential Group 10 92 5.1. Selected Moundville I basic shapes: simple bowl, restricted bowl, cylindrical bowl, shallow flaring-rim bowl, terraced bowl with a pedestaled base, carinated bowl, slender ovoid bottle, cylindrical bottle, unburnished jar 98 5.2. Unburnished jar rims 99 5.3. Unburnished jar orifice diameters 101 5.4. Thickened-rim jar profile 102 5.5. Carthage Incised, var. Summerville burnished jars 105 5.6. Orifice diameters for Bell Plain bowls 106 5.7. Orifice diameters for Carthage Incised and other decorated bowls 107 5.8. Orifice diameters for Mississippi Plain bowls 108 5.9. Large simple bowl or pan rims 110 5.10. Flaring-rim bowl rims 110 x Illustrations 5.11. Moundville Engraved, var. Chapman carinated bowl 112 5.12. Moundville Engraved, var. Chapman terraced bowl 114 5.13. Orifice diameters for bottles in the study assemblage 117 5.14. Ford’s method seriation of MNV percentages by context 119 5.15. Sherd percentages by serving-ware type for combined Moundville I assemblages 122 5.16. Assemblages that include Moundville Engraved, var. Chapman, Moundville Engraved, var. Elliot’s Creek, Bell Plain, var. Goldsmith, or unclassified engraved sherds 123 5.17...