Contents1. New Directions in Moundville Research IVincas P. Steponaitis and C. Margaret Scarry2. Social Archaeology of Monumental Spaces at Moundville 23Vernon James Knight Jr.3. Long-Term Trends in the Making and Materialization of SocialGroups at Moundville 44Gregory D. Wilson4.

Mound X and Selective Forgetting at Early Moundville 54John H. Blitz5. Was There a Moundville Medicine Society? 74George E. Lankford6. The Distribution of Hemphill-Style Artifacts at Moundville 99Erin E. Phillips7. Moundville Palettes- Prestige Goods or Inalienable Possessions? 121Vincas P. Steponaitis8.

Rural Settlement in the Black Warrior Valley 134Scott W. Hammerstedt, Mintey D. Maxham, and Jennifer L. Myer9. Late Prehistoric Social Practice in the Rural Black Warrior River Valley 162John F. Scarry, H. Edwin Jackson, and Mintey D. Maxham10.

Domestic and Ritual Meals in the Moundville Chiefdom 187H. Edwin Jackson, C. Margaret Scarry, and Susan Scott11. Crafting Moundville Palettes 234Jera R. Davis12. Moundville as a Ceremonial Ground 255C. Margaret Scarry and Vincas P. SteponaitisList of Contributors 301Index 305.