Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley

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Contents Figures Tables Preface and Acknowledgments 1. A Brief Introduction to the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi River Valley Michael J. O'Brien and Robert C. Dunnell 2. An Examination of Mississippian-Period Phases in Southeastern Missouri Gregory L. Fox 3. Pottery, Radiocarbon Dates, and Mississippian-Period Chronology Building in Western Kentucky Paul P Kreisa 4. An Overview of Walls Engraved Pottery in the Central Missisvii xii xv 1 31 59 sippi Valley 80 David H. Dye 5. Graves Lake: A Late Mississippian-Period Village in Lauderdale County, Tennessee 99 Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., and Michael C. Moore 6. Landscape Change and Settlement Location in the Cairo Lowland of Southeastern Missouri 124 Robert H. Lafferty III 7. Nonsite Survey in the Cairo Lowland of Southeastern Missouri 148 Patrice A. Teltser 8. Powers Fort: A Middle Mississippian-Period Fortified Community in the Western Lowlands of Missouri 169 Timothy K. Perttula 9. The Langdon Site, Dunklin County, Missouri 200 Robert C. Dunnell 10. Moon: A Fortified Mississippian-Period Village in Poinsett County, Arkansas 225 David W. Benn vi I Contents 11. Variability in Crowley's Ridge Gravel 258 Patrick T McCutcheon and Robert C. Dunnell 12. Blade Technology and Nonlocal Cherts: Hopewell(?) Traits at the Twenhafel Site, Southern Illinois 281 Carol A. Morrow 13. Prehistoric Diet in the Central Mississippi River Valley Diana M. Greenlee Notes References Contributors Index 299 375 379 ...