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1	People of the Weeping Eye more books like this by Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W Michael Gear In this epic tale of survival set in Paleolithic America, the authors of "People of the Nightland" bring readers to the banks of the great Mississippi River more than one thousand years ago. see all copies from $14.27! new only from $14.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	People of the Weeping Eye more books like this by W Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear In this epic tale of survival set in Paleolithic America, the authors of "People of the Nightland" take readers to the banks of the great Mississippi River more than one thousand years ago. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $2.95! \| SVS
3	Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions more books like this by Timothy R Pauketat This book sweeps away the last vestiges of social-evolutionary explanations of chiefdoms by rethinking the history of Pre-Columbian Southeast peoples and comparing them to ancient peoples in the Southwest, Mexico, Mesoamerica, and Mesopotamia. see all copies from $20.26! new only from $20.26! \| SVS
4	Caborn-Welborn: Constructing a New Society After the Angel Chiefdom Collapse more books like this by David Pollack Caborn-Welborn, a late Mississippian (A.D. 1400-1700) farming society centered at the confluence of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers (in what is now southwestern Indiana, southeastern Illinois, and northwestern Kentucky), developed following the collapse of the Angel chiefdom (A.D. 1000-1400). Using ceramic and settlement data, David Pollack examines ... see all copies from $3.12! new only from $6.67! \| first editions
5	Ancient Chiefdoms of the Tombigbee more books like this by John H. Blitz Within the last 50 years archaeologists have discovered that around the 10th century AD, native Southeastern peoples began a process of cultural change far more complex than anything that had occurred previously. These late prehistoric societies - known as Mississippian - have come to be regarded as chiefdoms. The chiefdoms are of great ... see all copies from $14.50! new only from $29.47!
6	Bottle Creek: A Pensacola Culture Site in South Alabama more books like this by Ian W Brown (Editor) Consisting of 18 earthen mounds and numerous additional habitation areas dating to A.D. 1250-1550, the Bottle Creek site was first professionally investigated in 1932 when David L. DeJarnette of the Alabama Museum of Natural History began work there to determine if the site had a cultural relationship with Moundville, connected to the north by a ... see all copies from $3.12! new only from $6.67! \| first editions
7	Journey to Cahokia: A Boy's Visit to the Great Mound City more books like this by Albert Lorenz, Joy Schleh In ca. 1300, Little Hawk and his family take a trip to trade with the Indians of Cahokia, the great city along the Mississippi River. see all copies from $3.33! new only from $6.36! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa more books like this by Charles M Hudson "This book begins where the reach of archaeology and history ends," writes Charles Hudson. Grounded in careful research, his extraordinary work imaginatively brings to life the sixteenth-century world of the Coosa, a native people whose territory stretched across the Southeast, encompassing much of presentday Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. Cast ... see all copies from $7.99! new only from $7.99!
9	Mississippian village textiles at Wickliffe more books like this by Penelope Ballard Drooker Because textiles rarely are preserved in the archaeological record outside of deserts and permafrost areas, in many regions of the world very little is known about their characteristics, functions, production technology, or socioeconomic importance. While this fact is also true of organic fabrics produced during the Mississippian period in ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $15.00!
10	Journey to the Sun: A Novel of Prehistoric North America more books like this by Ernest L Schusky A small Shoshone band faces another winter of famine, and fourteen-year-old Burnt Face accepts that the time has come for her to marry. Her only hope is that her husband will not take her too far from her beloved family and their ancestral lands. Once married and ensconced in a new tribe, Burnt Face discovers that she possesses a sharp ear and ... see all copies from $2.73! signed copies
11	Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos more books like this by Sally A Kitt Chappell At the turn of the last millennium, a powerful Native American civilization emerged and flourished in the American Midwest. By 1050 CE the population of its capital city, Cahokia, was larger than that of London. Its technology was Stone Age, yet its culture fostered widespread commerce, sophisticated artisitc expression and monumental architecture ... see all copies from $20.00! new only from $20.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Mississippian Political Economy more books like this by Jon Muller This ambitious work offers a coherent and comprehensive look at the material conditions underlying and stimulating political development in southeastern North America during the Mississippian period. After introducing theoretical issues, Muller addresses reproduction, production, distribution, and consumption within their social and material ... see all copies from $59.47! new only from $59.47! \| SVS
13 view cover	Native Americans Before 1492: The Moundbuilding Centers of the Eastern Woodlands more books like this by Lynda Norene Shaffer The pre-Columbian culture of the Mississippi woodlands has received surprisingly little attention from historians. Studying this culture, which was in many respects highly advanced, opens an entirely new perspective on what we are used to thinking of as "American" history. This essay by a distinguished historian and teacher is aimed at world ... see all copies from $3.41! new only from $51.08! \| first editions
14 view cover	Mississippian Community Organization: The Powers Phase in Southeastern Missouri more books like this by Michael J O'Brien The Powers Phase Project, a multiyear archaeological program undertaken in southeastern Missouri by the University of Michigan in the late 1960s and early 1970s, represents a milestone in Americanist archaeology. This volume reinterprets a number of the earlier conclusions from the long-term excavations of the Turner and Snodgrass sites and ... see all copies from $81.98! new only from $81.98! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Changing Perspectives on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley more books like this by Dr. Michael J O'Brien (Editor), Society of American Archaeology, Robert C Dunnell (Editor) The Mississippi Valley region has long played a critical role in the development of American archaeology and continues to be widely known for the major research of the early 1950s. To bring the archaeological record up to date, fourteen Central Valley experts address diverse topics including the distribution of artifacts across the landscape, ... see all copies from $8.99! new only from $8.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	Middle Mississippians: Encounters with the Prehistoric Amerindians more books like this by Ted Hirschfield These poems tell the story of the once-mighty, now eroded or levelled earthworks of the Indians of the American Midwest. It is a melancholy tale of the insensitivity and greed of the white man, from de Soto to modern real estate developers. see all copies from $2.55! new only from $9.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Archaeology of Town Creek more books like this by Edmond A Boudreaux This work provides new insights into the community pattern and leadership roles at a major Mississippian archaeological site. The sequence of change for public architecture during the Mississippian period may reflect a centralization of political power through time. In the research presented here, some of the community-level assumptions attributed ... see all copies from $19.89! new only from $24.65!
18 view cover	Sunwatch: Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World more books like this by Robert A Cook This is a model for investigations of the Mississippian dimensions of Fort Ancient societies. The last prehistoric cultures to inhabit the Middle Ohio Valley (ca. A.D. 1000-1650) are referred to as Fort Ancient societies, which exhibited a wide variety of Mississippian period characteristics. What is less well known and little understood are the ... see all copies from $28.08! new only from $28.08! \| SVS
19 view cover	Ceramics, Chronology, and Community Patterns: An Archaeological Study at Moundville more books like this by Vincas P. Steponaitis see all copies from $50.00! new only from $111.55! \| SVS
20	Cahokia: City of the Sun: Prehistoric Urban Center in the American Bottom more books like this by Claudia G Mink see all copies from $8.15! new only from $42.99!
21 view cover	Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi more books like this by David H Dye (Editor), Cheryl A Cox (Editor) This work brings together scholars who focus their effort upon the Central Mississippi Valley during a 400-year period that witnessed dramatic and absolute changes in a traditional way of life. see all copies from $17.65! new only from $31.20!
22 view cover	The Archaeology and History of the Native Georgia Tribes more books like this by Max E White The story of Georgia's Indians from elephant hunts to the European invasion. Spanning 12,000 years, this scientifically accurate and very readable book guides readers through the prehistoric and historic archaeological evidence left by Georgia's native peoples. It is the only comprehensive, up-to-date, and text-based overview of its kind in print. ... see all copies from $17.88! new only from $17.88! \| SVS
23 view cover	Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town more books like this by Robert A Birmingham, Lynne G Goldstein The mystery of Aztalan - Aztalan has remained a mystery since the early nineteenth century when it was discovered by settlers who came to the Crawfish River, fifty miles west of Milwaukee. Who were the early indigenous people who inhabited this place? When did they live here? Why did they disappear? Robert Birmingham and Lynne Goldstein attempt to ... see all copies from $9.16! new only from $11.46!
24 view cover	Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power more books like this by Thomas E Emerson This dramatic and controversial new interpretation of Cahokian leadership strategies examines the authority a ruling elite exercised over the surrounding countryside through a complex of social, political, and religious forms. Using the theoretical concepts of agency, power, and ideology, this study explores the development of cultural complexity ... see all copies from $26.24! new only from $36.20!
25	The Lohmann Site: An Early Mississippian Center in the American Bottom more books like this by Duane Esarey, Timothy Pauketat One of the few documented excavations at an American Bottom single-mound Mississippian temple town that has provided revealing insights into town organization as well as evidence of specialized celt manufacturing. see all copies from $6.23! new only from $13.99! \| first editions

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