Mississippian Societies (Archaeology)

Mississippian Socio-Political Complexity as Historical Structure

by Ramie Gougeon

Review of "From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation" by Robbie Ethridge

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Published in "Journal of Interdisciplinary History", Volume 43, Number 1, Summer 2012, pp. 115-116

Decoration and Vessel Form in Parkin Phase Ceramics

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

A Paper presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Memphis, April 21, 2012.

Review of 'Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South'.

by Anthony Krus

published in 'American Antiquity', 2010

The Legacy of Lilly, Black, and the WPA at Angel Mounds near Evansville, Indiana

by Anthony Krus

Authored with Timothy Baumann, G. William Monaghan, Christopher Peebles, Charla Marshall, and Joel Marshall.  Published in 'The SAA Archaeological Record', 2011.

Bridging History and Prehistory: The Possible Antiquity of a Native American Ballgame

by Anthony Krus

published in 'Native South', 2011

Refortifying Cahokia: More Efficient Palisade Construction through Redesigned Bastions

by Anthony Krus

published in 'Midcontental Journal of Archaeology', 2011

The number of posts in the initial and subsequent construction of Cahokia’s Central Palisade was recalculated using... more The number of posts in the initial and subsequent construction of Cahokia’s Central Palisade was recalculated using new measurements of the postholes, bastions, and changes in the perimeter of the palisade that resulted from its reconstructions. Application of this recalculation indicates that constructions of the palisade may have used fewer posts than previously estimated. These data also suggest that both the number of posts needed for construction and the number of person-hours needed for construction decreased between 22.5 to 27.5 percent from its second to its final construction episodes, and that the Central Palisade always used wood more efficiently after it was reconstructed. This may reflect a conscious attempt by Cahokians to conserve wood resources through changing the Central Palisade’s architecture.

Triangle Points and the Upper Mississippians: Oneota and Fort Ancient Typologies

by Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology

By Marcus Schulenburg, published in Field Notes: A Journal of Collegiate Anthropology 2(1), 2010, pp. 83-97.

The Fort Ancient and Oneota cultures have long been noted for their similarities. It is my intent to analyze the stone... more The Fort Ancient and Oneota cultures have long been noted for their similarities. It is my intent to analyze the stone tools from two sites cross- culturally to determine whether these similarities exist beyond the superficial and visual and extend to the reality of daily life, economic, social, or subsistence practices. Such an analysis reveals a methodological divide between regional archaeologists and their attempts to interpret ostensibly identical data, which has altered how each culture is interpreted and impacts the ability to compare the cultures. This paper will examine the regional data presentations and the impact of these differences upon the current state of the archaeological record.

Storage and Relative Surplus at the Mississippian Site of Moundville

by Casey Barrier

2011. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 30:206-219.

Changing Ideas About the Parkin Site, Northeast Arkansas

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Paper presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Macon, Georgia, 2000.

Some Thoughts on the Development and Evolution of the Parkin Phase

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Paper presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Biloxi, Mississippi, 2002.

Interim Report on Archaeological Research at the Tatham Mound, Citrus County, Florida: Season III

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Senior author with junior author Dale L. Hutchinson. Miscellaneous Project Report Series No. 30, Florida State Museum (now Florida Museum of Natural History), Department of Anthropology, Gainesville, 1987.

Comments on John Scarry's Fort Walton Type-Variety Paper

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Published in "The Florida Anthropologist" Vol. 38(3):240-241. September, 1985.

Redefining Safety Harbor: Late Prehistoric/Protohistoric Archaeology in West Peninsular Florida

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1989.  Chapter 3 is a site report on the Tatham Mound.

Kincaid Excavation Report 2011

by Corin Pursell

Geographic distribution and symbolism of colored mound architecture in the Mississippian Southeast

by Corin Pursell

Different but the same: Social integration of households in Mississippian chiefdoms

by Ramie Gougeon

A Social Network Analysis Approach to Modeling Social-Economic Complexity in Traditional Kin-Based Systems

by Brian Jones

My first SNA paper.  Still not sure what to do with it and am open to suggestions!

An important result of this study is the recognition that at some time, under a system of endogamous elite marriage... more An important result of this study is the recognition that at some time, under a system of endogamous elite marriage and as marriage restrictions are increased (as the definition of who qualifies as an elite is narrowed), some point will be reached where the commoners control the majority of the economy.  If at this point their own kinship network is well enough integrated, the commoners may elect to remove themselves from the elite-controlled network at little organizational cost.  A similar balance of elite vs. commoner control of the economy may underlie the dynamics of many traditional chiefdom-level organizations.  The network study presented here may provide at least a partial explanation of the observed fragility of such systems in the archaeological record.

Changing Landscapes in the American Bottom (USA): An Interdisciplinary Investigation with an Emphasis on the Late-Prehistoric and Early- …

by Amy Ollendorf

CURRENT RESEARCH: Tatham Mound

by Jeffrey M. Mitchem

Published in the Current Research section of "The Florida Anthropologist" Vol. 40(1):103. March, 1987.