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David H. Dye is associate professor and chair of anthropology at the University of Memphis. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Washington University. His research interests include ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological research in the Mid-South. His current research involves the analysis of artifacts from public and private collections in the Memphis area and an examination of iconography and warfare in the Southeast. Kristen J. Gremillion is an associate professor of anthropology at the Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her research interests include the origins of agriculture, human evolutionary ecology, and paleoethnobotany in eastern North America. She is currently investigating the ecology of early food production in the plateau country of eastern Kentucky. David J. Hally is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia in Athens. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1972. His research interests include the nature of Mississippian households and settlement systems , the analysis of archaeological ceramics, and the anthropology of southeastern food habits. He has directed site surveys and excavations at a number of locations across the state of Georgia. Mintcy D. Maxham is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her research interests include sociopolitical developments in Mississippian societies. Her current research focuses on rural settlement in the Moundville chiefdom, on which she has contributed a recent article to American Antiquity. Timothy K. Perttula received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and has been conducting archaeological and ethnohistorical research on the Caddo since the mid-1970s, focusing on the period immediately before and after contact Contributors with Europeans. He is a principal in Archeological and Environmental Consultants in Austin, T exas, and the Caddo Tribe’s archaeological consultant. Mark A. Rees is an assistant professor at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Oklahoma and has been involved with archaeological research throughout the eastern and midwestern United States. His research interests include historical anthropology and political culture. His dissertation research focused on the Moundville polity of west-central Alabama, and he is currently investigating mound sites in southern Louisiana. Christopher B. Rodning graduated from Harvard University in 1994 with an A.B. magna cum laude in anthropology and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. His primary interests are the landscapes and lifeways of late prehistoric and protohistoric native peoples of eastern North America. His dissertation addresses the archaeology and ethnohistory of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century native communities in western North Carolina. Rebecca Saunders is an associate curator of the Museum of Natural Science at Louisiana State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida. Her research interests include contact period studies, southeastern United States prehistory, and pottery analysis. John F. Scarry is a research associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He received his doctorate in anthropology from Case Western Reserve University. His dissertation research focused on the development of Mississippian chiefdoms in northwestern Florida. Since that time, his primary research efforts have dealt with the late prehistoric and historic period Apalachee chiefdom and the Spanish missions to the Apalachee. His current research focuses on the articulation of households into larger social formations in West Jefferson and Moundville phases of Alabama and how that affected the development of the Moundville chiefdom. Cameron B. Wesson is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He holds degrees in anthropology and architecture from Auburn University and received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include household archaeology, architecture , and political economy. His current research addresses the sociopolitical dynamics of Late Woodland and Early Mississippian communities in central Alabama . 262 / Contributors ...

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