Readings:

"Resettled Farmers and the making of a Mississippian polity" by Timothy Pauketat and "Power and place: Agency, ecology, and history in the American Bottom, Illinois," Sissel Schroeder.

 

Thought Questions for Thursday, October 16

 

What is the Big Bang?

What happened at Cahokia?

What happened in the rest of the American Bottom, North and South?

What is Agency, and how is it important?

What theoretical approaches were used by the authors of your readings?