A Dan Josselyn Memorial PublicationDetailed reconstruction of the waxing and waning of political fortunes among the chiefly elites at an important center of the prehistoric worldAt the time the first Europeans arrived in the New World, thousands of earthen platform mounds dotted the landscape of eastern North America. Only a few of the mound sites have survived the ravages of time and the devastation of pilferers; one of these valu...

Social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and historyThe past 20 years have witnessed a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This paradigm shift is the bridging of prehistory and history to fashion a seamless social history that includes not only the 16th-century Late Mississippian period and the 18th-century colonial period but also the largely forgotten--and critically...

The rich human history of South Carolina from its earliest days to the presentAdam King's Archaeology in South Carolina contains an overview of the fascinating archaeological research currently ongoing in the Palmetto state featuring essays by twenty scholars studying South Carolina's past through archaeological research. The scholarly contributions are enhanced by more than one hundred black and white and thirty-eight color images of some of the most impo...

In Mississippian Culture Heroes, Ritual Regalia, and Sacred Bundles, archaeologists analyze evidence of the religious beliefs and ritual practices of Mississippian people through the lens of indigenous ontologies and material culture. Employing archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistoric evidence, the contributors explore the recent emphasis on iconography as an important component for interpreting eastern North America’s ancient past. The research in this volume emphasizes the animist...

Young love: unpredictable, fleeting. They say it never lasts.Falling in love when you're a teenager isn't supposed to shape your life, but it has defined us.I was fifteen when I fell for the boy with stars in his eyes. At seventeen, desperate to fight the currents pulling us apart and against our families' wishes, I married him. Determined to make it work, I headed to college while he moved across the country, each chasing our own dreams.Falling in ...

A timely, comprehensive reevaluation of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.One of the most venerable concepts in Southeastern archaeology is that of the Southern Cult. The idea has its roots in the intensely productive decade (archaeologically) of the 1930s and is fundamentally tied to yet another venerable concept—Mississippian culture. The last comprehensive study of the melding of these two concepts into the term Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC) is more t...

In our lead story this month, “Hindsight,” horror author Sarah Langan tells the story of an apocalypse-in-progress, a world in which the laws of physics no longer seem to behave properly, and a mysterious cosmic anomaly called Black Betty. The last remaining survivors have one last hope, but can the technological singularity defeat the threat of a gravitational one?In “Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back,” author Joe R. Lansdale tells the tale of a mad scientist and his fami...

The Curators—Joe Ramsey, Grim, Lilli Spicer, Durango, and Lucius—have set up a headquarters in Richmond, London.Joe's new life becomes complicated when he learns that there's another grimoire out there, one that the Iron Order will do anything to obtain. Even leveling London.But Joe likes London.With his special ability to absorb magic and redirect it as he wills, he might just save it.

Alex the macaw lives in Kwaaiet, a boring village where not a lot happens. If he had his way, he'd spend all day making music. Rap is his favourite. But the Boring Bird Gang have other ideas. After Alex raps at The Fountain of Silence, they banish him from the village, so Alex packs his bags and sets off to find a new home. Will he ever find somewhere nice where he can be himself?

Advancing the study of Mississippian societies through innovative archaeological theory and method.Published in 1995, Mississippian Communities and Households, edited by J. Daniel Rogers and Bruce D. Smith, was a foundational text that advanced southeastern archaeology in significant ways and brought household-level archaeology to the forefront of the field. Reconsidering Mississippian Communities and Households revisits and builds on wha...

What You Thirst for Determines Your DestinyDiving deep into the gripping account of Gideon in Judges 6-8, Steve Gray and J. D. King reveal the fundamental truth that everyone has a spiritual thirst—and how and where you choose to quench that thirst determines your destiny. Leading you to the shores of timeless biblical truth, Gray and King invite you to jump headfirst into the rejuvenating waters of spiritual encounter, transformation, and activation, equipping you...

Arrogant, dangerous, and unbelievably skilled with his tongue, Luka is a ruthless bratva boss who has a reputation for playing it fast and loose.And I've fallen right into his possessive hands.He might be exceedingly handsome and wealthy, but that doesn't forgive him for being a notorious criminal mastermind. Maybe I should've thought twice before crawling into bed with him. And perhaps it would've been wise to use protection instead of getting lost in his fierce gaze and p...