About the Author

Thomas E. Emerson is Director of the Illinois Transportation Archaeological Research Program and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Reviews

"An important contribution to the literature of Cahokia and the ongoing debates over chiefly societies in general. It joins a group of major studies that offer contrasting perspectives on the organizational character of Mississippian societies and how one defines them archaeologically."—American Antiquity