The nature of Mississippian interpolity competition -- Archaeology of the Middle Pearl River -- Investigation of the settlement patterns of the Pevey polity -- Temper and culture : ceramic analysis -- Analyses of foodways and of other artifact classes -- Interpretations of the Middle Pearl Mississippian -- Regional analysis and interpolity competition -- Appendix 1. Ceramic types and counts -- Appendix 2. Macrofaunal analysis from two units at the Pevey site
Summary
The definition of the regional limits of chiefly influence during the Mississippian period in the southeastern United States remains unresolved. In the Gulf Coastal Plain between the Mississippi and Black Warrior rivers, some studies have explored the role that interpolity interactions played in influencing a polity's social and political complexity through time. It has been argued that the larger, more complex polities were able to preempt the development of more complex political structures among the smaller polities
Notes
"A Dan Josselyn memorial publication."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-220) and index
