Contents List of Figures ix List of Tables xiii Foreword xv 1. The Current State of (Mississippian) Women: Archaeology, Gender, and Indigenous Feminism 1 Rachel V. Briggs and Michaelyn S. Harle 2. Recognizing Women at Cahokia: Farmers; Weavers; Agents of Polity Integration 37 Gayle J. Fritz 3. Cooks, Cooking, and Cooking Pots: A Landscape of Culinary Practice and the Origins of Moundville, AD 1070-1200 62 Rachel V. Briggs 4.

The Life Course of Women in Upper Tennessee Valley, Dallas Phase Communities 90 Michaelyn S. Harle, Tracy K. Betsinger, and Lynne P. Sullivan 5. Mississippian Geographies of Fertility: A Multiscalar View from Southeast Missouri 116 Jennifer Bengtson and Toni Alexander 6. Matrilineal Kinship Networks and Late Mississippian Politics in the Upper Tennessee Valley 146 Lynne P. Sullivan 7. Where Women Work: Taskscapes and Activity Area Analysis 171 Ramie A.

Gougeon 8. Earth Mother and Her Children: The Role of Mississippian Women in Shaping Beliefs and Material Culture in the Middle Cumberland Region 194 Robert V. Sharp 9. Gender, Craft Production, and Emerging Power in Mississippian Hierarchical Societies 229 Maureen S. Meyers 10. Women and Power at Joara, Cuenca, and Fort San Juan 247 Christopher B. Rodning, Rachel V. Briggs, Robin A.

Beck, Gayle J. Fritz, Heather A. Lapham, and David G. Moore 11. Fort Walton Women 272 Nancy Marie White 12. Learning About and From Mississippian Women 290 Lynne P. Sullivan List of Contributors 305 Index 309.