Critical new discoveries and archaeological patterns increase understanding of early Mississippian culture and societyThe reasons for the rise and fall of early cities and ceremonial centers around the world have been sought for centuries. In the United States, Cahokia has been the focus of intense archaeological work to explain its mysteries. Cahokia was the first and exponentially the largest of the Mississippian centers that appeared across the Midwest and South...

Analyses of big datasets signal important directions for the archaeology of religion in the Archaic to Mississippian Native North AmericaAcross North America, huge data accumulations derived from decades of cultural resource management studies, combined with old museum collections, provide archaeologists with unparalleled opportunities to explore new questions about the lives of ancient native peoples. For many years the topics of technology, economy, and political...

A timely, comprehensive reevaluation of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.One of the most venerable concepts in Southeastern archaeology is that of the Southern Cult. The idea has its roots in the intensely productive decade (archaeologically) of the 1930s and is fundamentally tied to yet another venerable concept—Mississippian culture. The last comprehensive study of the melding of these two concepts into the term Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC) is more t...

The future of humanity is urban, and knowledge of urbanism’s deep past is critical for us all to navigate that future. The time has come for archaeologists to rethink this global phenomenon by asking what urbanism is and, more to the point, was. Can we truly understand ancient urbanism by only asking after the human element, or are the properties and qualities of landscapes, materials, and atmospheres equally causal?The nine authors of New Materialisms Ancient Urbanisms se...

Er ist ein Thean der Damurial - und leitet den Durchbruch ins Arresum Zu Beginn des Jahres 1218 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung - das entspricht dem Jahr 4805 alter Zeit - operieren die Unsterblichen um Perry Rhodan mit insgesamt fünf Raumschiffen auf der "anderen" Seite des Universums, im Arresum. Sie wissen, dass nur von dieser Seite aus die unheimliche Gefahr zu beseitigen ist, die über den Mars nun auch die Erde und die gesamte Menschheitsgalaxis zu bedrohen beginnt. Während ihres Aufe...