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6. Mississippi Period Mound Groups and Communities in the Lower Mississippi Valley Tristram R. Kidder 123 7. Mississippian Towns in Kentucky Charles Stout and R. Barry Lewis 151 8. Towns along the Lower Ohio Jon Muller 179 9. The Mississippian Town Plan and Cultural Landscape of Cahokia, Illinois Scott J. Demel and Robert L. Hall 200 10. The Town as Metaphor R. Barry Lewis and Charles Stout 227 References Cited 243 Contributors 293 Index 297 vi Contents Figures and Tables Figures 1-1. Major Mississippian towns and central places. 6 1-2. Mississippian architectural design elements. 7 1-3. Public spaces: Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy; Zocalo, Oaxaca, Mexico; Hampi bazaar and Virupaksha temple, Karnataka, India. 13 2-1. The Mississippian World. 23 2-2. Florida chiefdoms. 24 2-3. Mississippian Apalachee. 28 2-4. Mississippian mound centers in Apalachee. 31 2-5. Apalachee burials ranked by artifact types. 33 2-6. The Lake Jackson site. 35 2-7. Weeden Island population trends in the Tallahassee Hills. 43 2-8. Late prehistoric population trends in the Apalachicola River Valley and the Tallahassee Hills. 44 3-1. The King site and other sixteenth-century site clusters in northwestern Georgia, eastern Alabama, and eastern Tennessee. 50 3-2. Excavated features at the King site, 1992. 51 3-3. King site square and rectangular structures. 52 3-4. Structure 7 at the King site. 53 3-5. Rectangular structure located south of square Structure 2. 55 3-6. Distribution of burials at the King site. 56 3-7. King site multistructure households. 57 4-1. Location of major sites discussed in the text. 65 4-2. Plan of the Carden Farm II site (40An44). 68 4-3. Paired structures on mound summit (Level E2) at Hiwassee Island. 70 4-4. Domestic structures and small circular structures at 40Bt47. 72 4-5. Artist’s reconstruction of the Toqua village. 75 4-6. Plan of major site features at Toqua. 76 4-7. Mound A, Phase E, Structures 14 and 30 at Toqua. 79 4-8. Artist’s reconstruction of Structure 14 at Toqua. 80 4-9. Plan of Structure 2 at Toqua. 81 ...

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