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Creating a Frontier Community: Ceremony and Political Elites in a Middle Appalachian Mississippian Village (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Carter Robinson (44LE10) is a Mississippian mound site in use from the mid-14th century to the mid-15th century in the Appalachian Mountains of modern-day Southwest Virginia. This paper examines the roles of potential political elites within the community, first examining the artifact assemblage associated with the only excavated multi-phase structure at...