Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland

Vincas P. Steponaitis, William E. Leuchtenburg Distinguished Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology and secretary of the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is coeditor of Archaeology of the Moundville Chiefdom. C. Margaret Scarry, professor of anthropology and director of the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the editor of Foraging and Farming in the Eastern Woodlands.

Fascinating. . . . Highly recommended."—Choice "A very important contribution to the understanding of a great Native American center that brings fresh insights to a field of research that has troubled scholars for many decades."—American Archaeology "We need to theorize the mounds, mound-builders, and moundvilles of North America more effectively. Better historical contextualizations, as seen in . . . Rethinking Moundville and Its Hinterland are the beginning."—Antiquity "For Southeastern archaeologists the Rethinking Moundville volume will be a necessary addition to their bookshelves. . . . Long overdue."—Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology "A major publication in Southeastern archaeology. It not only summarizes two decades of work by multiple researchers, but also marshals that large body of work into a coherent argument that leads convincingly to a new interpretation of one of the region's most thoroughly studied sites."—Mississippi Archaeology