Introduction: Continuist and Discontinuist Histories
Chapter 1. The Incomplete Debunking of the Mound Builder Mythology
Chapter 2. Unitary Polities and Dual Heterarchies: Apprehending Social Systems from Alternative Perspectives
Chapter 3. The Dual Complementary Heterarchical Community/Cult Sodality Heterarchy Model
Chapter 4. The Symbolic Pragmatic Model of Style and the Custodial Franchising of Sacred Bundles
Chapter 5. The World Renewal Mortuary Model: The Postmortem Human Sacrificial Chaîne Opératoire Mortuary Trajector
Chapter 6. Settlement, Subsistence, and Ceremonialism: The Deontic Ecology of the Prehistoric Eastern Woodlands
Chapter 7. The Dissolution of a Transregional Second-Order Hopewellian Ceremonial Sphere
Chapter 8. Community Polities or Dual Heterarchies: Extreme Displaced Mortuary Depositions; and Demonstrating the "Best Fit" Truth
Chapter 9. The Emergence of the Complementary Heterarchical Chiefdom Community: Singular-Selective Candidature Practice
Chapter 10. The Emergence of Vacant Quarters and the Late Prehistoric Period Post-Late Prehistoric Period Transition
Chapter 11. The Lower Chattahoochee River Valley: A Primary Southeastern Mississippian Ceremonial Sphere
Chapter 12. The Late Prehistoric Period Savannah River Valley: A First-Order Southern; Appalachian Complicated-Stamped Ceremonial Sphere
Chapter 13. The Etowah Site of the Etowah River Valley Late Prehistoric Period; Paramount Chiefdom Polity or Dispersed Third-Order Cult Sodality Heterarchy?
Chapter 14. The Formation and Transformation of Mound C of the Etowah Site
Conclusion. The Real Mound Builder Social World