Consolidation and hierarchy: Chiefdom variability in the Mississippian Southeast

American Antiquity

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 641-661

  Beck Jr , Robin A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/3557066     Document Type: Article

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