Foreword / Jerald T. Milanich -- Part I. Introduction -- Looking for and at Mississippian Political Change / John F. Scarry -- The Nature of Mississippian Societies / John F. Scarry -- Part II. Structure and Change in Mississippian Societies -- Development and Dissolution of a Mississippian Society in the American Bottom, Illinois / George R. Milner -- Markers of Social Integration : The Development of Centralized Authority in the Spiro Region / J. Daniel Rogers -- Control Over Goods and the Political Stability of the Moundville Chiefdom / Paul D. Welch -- Platform-Mound Construction and the Instability of Mississippian Chiefdoms / David J. Hally -- Mississippian Political Dynamics in the Oconee Valley, Georgia / Mark Williams and Gary Shapiro -- Chiefly Cycling and Large-Scale Abandonments as Viewed from the Savannah River Basin / David G. Anderson -- Stability and Change in the Apalachee Chiefdom / John F. Scarry -- Part III. Chiefly Politics and the Mississippian Societies -- Fluctuations between Simple and Complex Chiefdoms : Cycling in the Late Prehistoric Southeast / David G. Anderson
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