I am an archaeological anthropologist, specializing in the prehistoric and protohistoric Southeastern United States. I have research experience in the southeast, and midwest, as well as central Mexico. My research addresses the sociopolitical development of Mississippian chiefdoms and the effects of Euroamerican contacts on Native Americans. My theoretical interests are complex society, political economy, household archaeology, art and iconography, dominance and resistance, and archaeological approaches to ethnicity.

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In Press Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Symbolic Capital, Prestige Goods, and Social Power. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.

1999 Chiefly Power and Food Storage in southeastern North America. World Archaeology 31(1):145-164.

1998 Mississippian Sacred Landscapes: The View from Alabama. In Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces, edited by R. B. Lewis and C. Stout. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

R.B. Lewis, C. Stout, and C. B. Wesson
1998 The Design of Mississippian Towns. In Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces, edited by R. B. Lewis and C. Stout. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.