Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tobacco and historical documentation of its use in the southeast
  • Archaeological context of South Appalachian Mississippian smoking ritual
  • Theorizing the role of religious ritual
  • Temporal and geographical dimensions of smoking pipe styles
  • Symbolism embedded in smoking pipe styles
  • The evolution of a ritual
  • Appendix A. Collections examined
  • Appendix B. Referenced archaeological sites
  • Appendix C. Descriptions of smoking pipe type categories and variants
  • Appendix D. Summary of metric attributes
  • Appendix E. Distribution map data.