Methods (and Theories) for the Madness

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The pace of urban development and destruction of sites around Cahokia prompted Tim Pauketat to develop and complete several large-scale excavation projects in what became known as the Richland complex. These excavations garnered large quantities of data while generating and refining archaeological method and theory. The data from these Richland Complex sites has had a profound effect on understanding Cahokia as an urbanism. The reason for this impact is to some degree in the scale of the excavations but also in the method and theory applied to those excavations. Here I review some of those impacts as well as some of the method and theory that made these discoveries so rich.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat

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Abstract Id(s): 50865