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accretional midden, 97, 101, 110 accumulators. See leadership acquisition: direct, 136–38, 142–43; indirect, 6,136, 138–139, 143; of power and prestige , 298 Adena period, 87, 205, 301 Adler, M. A., 160 adzes, 110 Africa, 22, 105, 295, 307 agency theory, 235, 236, 237, 238, 241, 253 aggrandizers. See leadership aggrandizing: ethic, 254; practices, 264 aggregation, 16, 249, 273, 285, 289; communities , 50; Early Archaic, 298; loci, 274; periodic, 285, 292; population, 272; sites, 16, 134, 137, 142; social, 299; temporary , 292 agriculture, 10, 12, 26, 28, 71, 98, 145, 147, 235, 238, 246, 278, 294, 300, 307; intensive , 20, 270, 278, 292, 294 Alabama, 10, 14, 76, 103, 107, 109, 140, 311, 313 alliances, 21, 113, 295; community 42; defensive , 287; intergroup, 5; kin, 38, 42 Amazon, 13, 220 Amazonian adaptation, 12 American Bottom, 120 American Unit, 191 Ames, K. M., 155 amulets, 6 Anderson, David, 8, 300 Anderson site, 81, 83 Apalachicola: delta, 16, 17, 25; shell mounds, 17, 18; sherds, 14; sites, 16 Apalachicola Bay, 15 Apalachicola River, 6, 10, 14, 16, 18, 258, 303 Apalachicola Valley, 10, 14, 17, 23, 24 Appalachians, 107 aquatic: environment, 12, 24, 247, 248, 249; resources 12, 17, 20, 23, 24 Archaic: origin, 2; period, 80, 86, 88, 91, 96, 101, 146, 234, 244, 248, 249, 251, 270, 282, 285, 300; standard, 164, 197 architecture: large-scale, 26, 27; local, 284; monumental, 26, 27, 44, 146, 157, 159, 161n. 1, 228, 255, 256, 274, 278, 285, 287, 290, 293, 296, 300, 301, 306, 309; mound, 196; public, 6, 26, 28, 49, 146, 152, 155, 256, 258, 277; theory, 26; tributary , 68 Arkansas, 98, 99, 107, 111, 140, 153, 161n. 6, 313 Arkansas River, 133, 148, 248, 249 Arnold, Jeanne, 216, 219, 238 Arnold Research Cave, 74 Asia, 105 atassa, 5, 100, 103, 104, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113 Atlantic Coast, 1, 5, 14, 16, 274, 275, 293 atlatl, 5, 91, 104, 105; weights, 3, 104, 106, 130, 133. See also bannerstones Index Australia, 22, 24, 105 Australian aborigines, 246 authority, 216, 255, 291; centralized, 19, 291; controlling, 94; exercise of, 220; in tribal societies, 273; institutions of, 219; of divine ancestors, 230; sacred, 291 axes: Aberdeen style triple-grooved, 109, 110; copper, 105; grooved, 110 Baby, Raymond, 140 Bader, Ann, 74 baked clay balls. See Poverty Point objects baked clay objects. See Poverty Point objects Baker site, 77 Ballcourt Mound (Mound E). See Poverty Point mounds bannerstones, 3, 5, 91, 93, 104–6, 109, 110, 112, 276; Butter®y, 105; Double Notch Butter®y, 105; frog ef¤gy, 105; humped, 110; knobbed lunate, 105; shutter-type, 109; siltstone, 105 Barrett site, 77 Bass, S., 139 Bayou Lacomb, 104 Baytown. See pottery bead, 112, 258, 310; blanks, 106, 152, 154, 157; bone, 92, 103; cannel coal, 81; chert, 154; cylindrical, 78, 107, 129; disc-shaped, 129; ef¤gy, 106, 111, 112; jasper, 5, 14, 17, 118, 157; manufacture of, 106–7, 110, 153, 154, 157, 159; Middle Archaic, 106, 111; owl, 108, 196; preforms, 106; shell, 78, 80, 92, 276; shell bead manufacture, 93; stone, 92, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 157; tubular, 109, 129, 154; workshop, 154; zoomorphic, 5, 6, 106–9, 110, 129, 276. See also Keenan bead cache Beech site cache, 103 bene¤cent obligation. See debt of gratitude Benton: artifacts, 101, 105, 311; bifaces, 101, 102, 103; caches, 6, 103, 107; culture, 101, 102, 103; double-notch, 105; groups, 5, 109; hypertrophic points, 276; points, 109, 110; oversize, 102, 104 berdache, 20 Bernbeck, R., 88, 93 bifurcate merging kinship terminology (Iroquois system), 240, 241, 295 Bigby Cannon chert, 142 big men. See leadership Big Mound Power, 19, 301 Big River, 97, 98 Big Sandy II point, 77 Bilbo site, 80, 81 Binford, Lewis, 136 Bird-David, N., 89 Bird mound (Mound A). See Poverty Point mounds Black, Glenn, 140 Black Earth site, 74, 83, 86 blade (®ake), 153, 154. See also core Blanton, R. E., 158 Blitz, John, 232 Bluegrass site, 74, 83 Blue Ridge Mountains, 10 boats, 17, 24 bone pins, 5, 6, 56, 59, 66, 74–85, 93, 276, 308, 310–11; engraved, 14, 73, 78, 80; manufacture of, 74, 80, 82; Middle Archaic , 74; polished, 56 Bonita Bay site, 50, 55, 63, 292 Bororo peoples, 229 boss. See leadership bottle gourd, 12 Brackenridge, Henry, 301 Brain, J. P., 132, 133 braza, 164 Brookes, Samuel, 5, 311 Brown, Calvin, 264 Brown, Ian, 109 Brown, James, 71, 72, 73, 86, 104, 203, 210n. 2 Bruhns...

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