Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Jerald T. Milanich
  • Part I. Introduction
  • Looking for and at Mississippian Political Change / John F. Scarry
  • The Nature of Mississippian Societies / John F. Scarry
  • Part II. Structure and Change in Mississippian Societies
  • Development and Dissolution of a Mississippian Society in the American Bottom, Illinois / George R. Milner
  • Markers of Social Integration : The Development of Centralized Authority in the Spiro Region / J. Daniel Rogers
  • Control Over Goods and the Political Stability of the Moundville Chiefdom / Paul D. Welch
  • Platform-Mound Construction and the Instability of Mississippian Chiefdoms / David J. Hally
  • Mississippian Political Dynamics in the Oconee Valley, Georgia / Mark Williams and Gary Shapiro
  • Chiefly Cycling and Large-Scale Abandonments as Viewed from the Savannah River Basin / David G. Anderson
  • Stability and Change in the Apalachee Chiefdom / John F. Scarry
  • Part III. Chiefly Politics and the Mississippian Societies
  • Fluctuations between Simple and Complex Chiefdoms : Cycling in the Late Prehistoric Southeast / David G. Anderson.