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Households And Changing Use Of Space At The Transitional Early Mississippian Austin Site, Benjamin Garrett Davis
Households And Changing Use Of Space At The Transitional Early Mississippian Austin Site, Benjamin Garrett Davis
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The Austin Site (22TU549) is a village site located in Tunica County, Mississippi dating to approximately A.D. 1150-1350, along the transition from the Terminal Late Woodland to the Mississippian period. While Elizabeth Hunt’s (2017) masters thesis concluded that the ceramics at Austin emphasized a Late Woodland persistence, the architecture and use of space at the site had yet to be analyzed. This study examines this architecture and use of space over time at Austin to determine if they display evidence of increasing institutionalized inequality. This included creating a map of Austin based on John Connaway’s original excavation notes, and then …