Introduction: New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery / Bretton T. Giles and Shawn P. Lambert
Part I. Variation in Design and Style
Tracking Design Variation within Late Mississippian Complicated Stamped Pottery Assemblages from the Georgia Coast / Anna M. Semon
The McAdams Style Revisited: Matching Spider Iconography with Material Culture / J. Grant Stauffer
A Preliminary Stylistic Assessment of the Ceramic Imagery of the Late Prehistoric Peoples of Choctawhatchee Bay, Florida, and Its Implications / John F. Scarry
Part II. Interpreting Mississippian Iconography
Local Eyes: Recognizing Cosmological Motifs / George E. Lankford
Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble: Mississippian Witchcraft Agency, Animism, and Materiality / David H. Dye
Part III. Situating and Historicizing Mississippian Symbols
Mnemonic Parallelism and the Cosmologies Materialized in Late Mississippian Pecan Point Headpots / Bretton T. Giles
From Enwrapped Worlds: A Peircean Semiotic Approach to Early Caddo Ceramics / Jesse C. Nowak
Imagery in Motion: Object Itineraries of Spiro Engraved Vessels / Shawn P. Lambert
Part IV. Concluding Remarks
Merging Art Historical and Anthropological Approaches in Pre-Columbian Iconography / Vernon James Knight