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Muskogean Council Houses and Indigenous Democracy in the Southeastern US Jacob Holland-Lulewicz, Ph.D. Department of Anthropology, Washington University Recent re-dating of the Cold Springs site in northern Georgia has led to the identification of the earliest known council houses in the ancestral Muskogean homeland by at least AD 500. This is roughly 500 years earlier…

Lost Cities of the Cloud Forest: Archaeology in the Eastern Andes Anna Guengerich, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Eckerd College Located between the Andes Mountains range and the tropical forests of the Amazon Basin, the Eastern Andes were long assumed to be too rugged, too rainy, and too dense with vegetation to support the development…

Feasting and Fishes: An Investigation into Seasonal Patterns, Labor Organization, and Monumental Architecture from Florida’s Crystal River Site and Roberts Island Shell Mound Complex In recent decades, archaeological research has provided evidence that some mounds in the southeastern United States were constructed in short episodes. A large work force would have been required to accomplish…

Five Millennia of Environmental Changes in the Coastal Southeast U.S. Katharine Napora, Ph.D., University of Kentucky Webb Museum of Anthropology Dr. Napora presents insights into over 5000 years of coastal paleoenvironmental changes based on analyses of ancient buried bald cypress trees recovered from the Georgia Coast. Information from tree rings and chemical analyses, supported by…