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The Argument For Archaeology, Megan C. Kassabaum, Rebecca Yamin Dec 2018

The Argument For Archaeology, Megan C. Kassabaum, Rebecca Yamin

Megan C Kassabaum

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Early Platforms, Early Plazas: Antecedents Of Mississippian Mound-And-Plaza Centers In The American South, Megan C. Kassabaum Dec 2018

Early Platforms, Early Plazas: Antecedents Of Mississippian Mound-And-Plaza Centers In The American South, Megan C. Kassabaum

Megan C Kassabaum

Platform mounds and plazas have a 5000-year-long history in the eastern United States but are often viewed through the lens of late prehistoric and early historic understandings of mound use. This review approaches the history of these important landscape features via a forward-looking temporal framework that emphasizes the variability in their construction and use through time and across space. I suggest that by viewing platform mounds in their historical contexts, emphasizing the construction process over final form, and focusing on nonmound sites and off-mound areas such as plazas, we can build a less biased and more complex understanding of early …