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Alt outlines interesting ideas about the role of hybridity and diversity in the development of Cahokia, one of the most complex polities and cultural landscapes of Native North America. Cahokia's Complexities is an important book about current archaeological knowledge of the Cahokian cultural landscape, and in shaping what we will learn from new archaeological finds in the years to come in the American Bottom and in the Cahokian diaspora, and it is an important contribution to broader scholarly conversations in archaeology about complexity. --Christopher B. Rodning, author of Center Places and Cherokee Towns: Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians Cahokia's Complexities engages with interesting, broadly relevant anthropological theory and grounds this engagement in a detailed material case study. --Meghan C. L. Howey, author of Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200-1600 and associate editor of the Journal of Archaeological Anthropology

Cahokia's Complexities engages with interesting, broadly relevant anthropological theory and grounds this engagement in a detailed material case study."""" - Meghan C. L. Howey, author of Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600 and associate editor of the Journal of Archaeological Anthropology """"Alt outlines interesting ideas about the role of hybridity and diversity in the development of Cahokia, one of the most complex polities and cultural landscapes of Native North America. Cahokia’s Complexities is an important book about current archaeological knowledge of the Cahokian cultural landscape, and in shaping what we will learn from new archaeological finds in the years to come in the American Bottom and in the Cahokian diaspora, and it is an important contribution to broader scholarly conversations in archaeology about complexity."""" - Christopher B. Rodning, author of Center Places and Cherokee Towns: Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians

Alt outlines interesting ideas about the role of hybridity and diversity in the development of Cahokia, one of the most complex polities and cultural landscapes of Native North America. Cahokia's Complexities is an important book about current archaeological knowledge of the Cahokian cultural landscape, and in shaping what we will learn from new archaeological finds in the years to come in the American Bottom and in the Cahokian diaspora, and it is an important contribution to broader scholarly conversations in archaeology about complexity. --Christopher B. Rodning, author of Center Places and Cherokee Towns: Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians Cahokia's Complexities engages with interesting, broadly relevant anthropological theory and grounds this engagement in a detailed material case study. --Meghan C. L. Howey, author of Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200-1600 and associate editor of the Journal of Archaeological Anthropology

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Susan M. Alt is an associate professor of anthropology and faculty curator at Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University. She is the editor of Ancient Complexities: New Perspectives in Precolumbian North America and coeditor of Medieval Mississippians: The Cahokian World.

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