Rachel V. Briggs is teaching assistant professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Michaelyn S. Harle is an archaeologist at the Tennessee Valley Authority.Lynne P. Sullivan, curator emerita of archaeology at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Tennessee, is coeditor of Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States.

• ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables xiii Foreword xv1. The Current State of (Mississippian) Women: Archaeology, Gender, and Indigenous Feminism 1Rachel V. Briggs and Michaelyn S. Harle2. Recognizing Women at Cahokia: Farmers; Weavers; Agents of Polity Integration 37Gayle J. Fritz3. Cooks, Cooking, and Cooking Pots: A Landscape of Culinary Practice and the Origins of Moundville, AD 1070–1200 62Rachel V. Briggs4. The Life Course of Women in Upper Tennessee Valley, Dallas Phase Communities 90Michaelyn S. Harle, Tracy K. Betsinger, and Lynne P. Sullivan5. Mississippian Geographies of Fertility: A Multiscalar View from Southeast Missouri 116Jennifer Bengtson and Toni Alexander6. Matrilineal Kinship Networks and Late Mississippian Politics in the Upper Tennessee Valley 146Lynne P. Sullivan7. Where Women Work: Taskscapes and Activity Area Analysis 171Ramie A. Gougeon8. Earth Mother and Her Children: The Role of Mississippian Women in Shaping Beliefs and Material Culture in the Middle Cumberland Region 194Robert V. Sharp9. Gender, Craft Production, and Emerging Power in Mississippian Hierarchical Societies 229Maureen S. Meyers10. Women and Power at Joara, Cuenca, and Fort San Juan 247Christopher B. Rodning, Rachel V. Briggs, Robin A. Beck, Gayle J. Fritz, Heather A. Lapham, and David G. Moore11. Fort Walton Women 272Nancy Marie White12. Learning About and From Mississippian Women 290Lynne P. SullivanList of Contributors 305 Index 309

Rachel V. Briggs is teaching assistant professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Michaelyn S. Harle is an archaeologist at the Tennessee Valley Authority.Lynne P. Sullivan, curator emerita of archaeology at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Tennessee, is coeditor of Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States.

• ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables xiii Foreword xv1. The Current State of (Mississippian) Women: Archaeology, Gender, and Indigenous Feminism 1Rachel V. Briggs and Michaelyn S. Harle2. Recognizing Women at Cahokia: Farmers; Weavers; Agents of Polity Integration 37Gayle J. Fritz3. Cooks, Cooking, and Cooking Pots: A Landscape of Culinary Practice and the Origins of Moundville, AD 1070–1200 62Rachel V. Briggs4. The Life Course of Women in Upper Tennessee Valley, Dallas Phase Communities 90Michaelyn S. Harle, Tracy K. Betsinger, and Lynne P. Sullivan5. Mississippian Geographies of Fertility: A Multiscalar View from Southeast Missouri 116Jennifer Bengtson and Toni Alexander6. Matrilineal Kinship Networks and Late Mississippian Politics in the Upper Tennessee Valley 146Lynne P. Sullivan7. Where Women Work: Taskscapes and Activity Area Analysis 171Ramie A. Gougeon8. Earth Mother and Her Children: The Role of Mississippian Women in Shaping Beliefs and Material Culture in the Middle Cumberland Region 194Robert V. Sharp9. Gender, Craft Production, and Emerging Power in Mississippian Hierarchical Societies 229Maureen S. Meyers10. Women and Power at Joara, Cuenca, and Fort San Juan 247Christopher B. Rodning, Rachel V. Briggs, Robin A. Beck, Gayle J. Fritz, Heather A. Lapham, and David G. Moore11. Fort Walton Women 272Nancy Marie White12. Learning About and From Mississippian Women 290Lynne P. SullivanList of Contributors 305 Index 309

Rachel V. Briggs is teaching assistant professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Michaelyn S. Harle is an archaeologist at the Tennessee Valley Authority.Lynne P. Sullivan, curator emerita of archaeology at the McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Tennessee, is coeditor of Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States.

• ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables xiii Foreword xv1. The Current State of (Mississippian) Women: Archaeology, Gender, and Indigenous Feminism 1Rachel V. Briggs and Michaelyn S. Harle2. Recognizing Women at Cahokia: Farmers; Weavers; Agents of Polity Integration 37Gayle J. Fritz3. Cooks, Cooking, and Cooking Pots: A Landscape of Culinary Practice and the Origins of Moundville, AD 1070–1200 62Rachel V. Briggs4. The Life Course of Women in Upper Tennessee Valley, Dallas Phase Communities 90Michaelyn S. Harle, Tracy K. Betsinger, and Lynne P. Sullivan5. Mississippian Geographies of Fertility: A Multiscalar View from Southeast Missouri 116Jennifer Bengtson and Toni Alexander6. Matrilineal Kinship Networks and Late Mississippian Politics in the Upper Tennessee Valley 146Lynne P. Sullivan7. Where Women Work: Taskscapes and Activity Area Analysis 171Ramie A. Gougeon8. Earth Mother and Her Children: The Role of Mississippian Women in Shaping Beliefs and Material Culture in the Middle Cumberland Region 194Robert V. Sharp9. Gender, Craft Production, and Emerging Power in Mississippian Hierarchical Societies 229Maureen S. Meyers10. Women and Power at Joara, Cuenca, and Fort San Juan 247Christopher B. Rodning, Rachel V. Briggs, Robin A. Beck, Gayle J. Fritz, Heather A. Lapham, and David G. Moore11. Fort Walton Women 272Nancy Marie White12. Learning About and From Mississippian Women 290Lynne P. SullivanList of Contributors 305 Index 309