Cheryl Claassen (PhD, Harvard 1982) has written about landscape and ritual over several decades. She is Research Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA. Recent works include Religion in Sixteenth Century Mexico (2022) with Laura Ammon, Native American Landscapes: An Engendered Perspective (2017), Beliefs and Rituals in Ancient Eastern North America (2015) and Feasting with Shellfish: Archaic Rituals and Landscape (2010). Other research addresses the history of shell buttons, analytical techniques for archaeological shell and gender in the American past.

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• List of contributors 1 The Ritual ComplexCheryl ClaassenPart 1: Cults and Rituals2 The Old Fire-Deer Spirits cult in the Archaic Period of eastern North AmericaCheryl Claassen3 Priestesses and priests, temples and goddesses: structuring and centering ritual in early Cahokian religious landscapesThomas E. Emerson4 Continuity, resilience, and transformation in Choctaw ritual practiceDavid H. Dye5 Places of stone and skill: an exploration of Paleoindian and Early Archaic rituals and ritual practitioners in northeastern North AmericaFrancis “Jess” Robinson6 Watchfires above the wetwoods: late Middle Archaic mortuary ritual and landscape in the Falls of the Ohio regionAnne Tobbe Bader7 Persons of the Directions: ontology and ethics meet cosmology in understanding the world views and rituals of Adena, Hopewell, and Postcontact eastern Woodland Indian societiesChristopher Carr8 Set, setting, and sacra: eastern North America’s tobacco shamans and the New World narcotic complexBobi Deere9 Figured practices: the material heritage of ritual in the Great Lakes regionWilliam Fox and Neal FerrisPart 2: Landscape, Shrines, and Pilgrimage10 Portals through the spirit world: precontact ceremonial cave use in the American SoutheastJan F. Simek, Beau Duke Carroll, and Alan Cressler11 Rituals of stone: Native American use of stone in the southeastern USJames R. Wettstaed and Johannes H. N. Loubser12 Revisiting Aztalan: looking at ritual from several perspectivesLynne Goldstein, Sissel Schroeder, and Donald Gaff13 Sacred journeys in the greater Cahokia regionB. Jacob Skousen14 Paths of the lightning arrow: the Apalachee ballgame and the persistence of landscapesJesse C. Nowak and Charles T. Rainville

Cheryl Claassen (PhD, Harvard 1982) has written about landscape and ritual over several decades. She is Research Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA. Recent works include Religion in Sixteenth Century Mexico (2022) with Laura Ammon, Native American Landscapes: An Engendered Perspective (2017), Beliefs and Rituals in Ancient Eastern North America (2015) and Feasting with Shellfish: Archaic Rituals and Landscape (2010). Other research addresses the history of shell buttons, analytical techniques for archaeological shell and gender in the American past.

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• List of contributors 1 The Ritual ComplexCheryl ClaassenPart 1: Cults and Rituals2 The Old Fire-Deer Spirits cult in the Archaic Period of eastern North AmericaCheryl Claassen3 Priestesses and priests, temples and goddesses: structuring and centering ritual in early Cahokian religious landscapesThomas E. Emerson4 Continuity, resilience, and transformation in Choctaw ritual practiceDavid H. Dye5 Places of stone and skill: an exploration of Paleoindian and Early Archaic rituals and ritual practitioners in northeastern North AmericaFrancis “Jess” Robinson6 Watchfires above the wetwoods: late Middle Archaic mortuary ritual and landscape in the Falls of the Ohio regionAnne Tobbe Bader7 Persons of the Directions: ontology and ethics meet cosmology in understanding the world views and rituals of Adena, Hopewell, and Postcontact eastern Woodland Indian societiesChristopher Carr8 Set, setting, and sacra: eastern North America’s tobacco shamans and the New World narcotic complexBobi Deere9 Figured practices: the material heritage of ritual in the Great Lakes regionWilliam Fox and Neal FerrisPart 2: Landscape, Shrines, and Pilgrimage10 Portals through the spirit world: precontact ceremonial cave use in the American SoutheastJan F. Simek, Beau Duke Carroll, and Alan Cressler11 Rituals of stone: Native American use of stone in the southeastern USJames R. Wettstaed and Johannes H. N. Loubser12 Revisiting Aztalan: looking at ritual from several perspectivesLynne Goldstein, Sissel Schroeder, and Donald Gaff13 Sacred journeys in the greater Cahokia regionB. Jacob Skousen14 Paths of the lightning arrow: the Apalachee ballgame and the persistence of landscapesJesse C. Nowak and Charles T. Rainville

Cheryl Claassen (PhD, Harvard 1982) has written about landscape and ritual over several decades. She is Research Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA. Recent works include Religion in Sixteenth Century Mexico (2022) with Laura Ammon, Native American Landscapes: An Engendered Perspective (2017), Beliefs and Rituals in Ancient Eastern North America (2015) and Feasting with Shellfish: Archaic Rituals and Landscape (2010). Other research addresses the history of shell buttons, analytical techniques for archaeological shell and gender in the American past.

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• List of contributors 1 The Ritual ComplexCheryl ClaassenPart 1: Cults and Rituals2 The Old Fire-Deer Spirits cult in the Archaic Period of eastern North AmericaCheryl Claassen3 Priestesses and priests, temples and goddesses: structuring and centering ritual in early Cahokian religious landscapesThomas E. Emerson4 Continuity, resilience, and transformation in Choctaw ritual practiceDavid H. Dye5 Places of stone and skill: an exploration of Paleoindian and Early Archaic rituals and ritual practitioners in northeastern North AmericaFrancis “Jess” Robinson6 Watchfires above the wetwoods: late Middle Archaic mortuary ritual and landscape in the Falls of the Ohio regionAnne Tobbe Bader7 Persons of the Directions: ontology and ethics meet cosmology in understanding the world views and rituals of Adena, Hopewell, and Postcontact eastern Woodland Indian societiesChristopher Carr8 Set, setting, and sacra: eastern North America’s tobacco shamans and the New World narcotic complexBobi Deere9 Figured practices: the material heritage of ritual in the Great Lakes regionWilliam Fox and Neal FerrisPart 2: Landscape, Shrines, and Pilgrimage10 Portals through the spirit world: precontact ceremonial cave use in the American SoutheastJan F. Simek, Beau Duke Carroll, and Alan Cressler11 Rituals of stone: Native American use of stone in the southeastern USJames R. Wettstaed and Johannes H. N. Loubser12 Revisiting Aztalan: looking at ritual from several perspectivesLynne Goldstein, Sissel Schroeder, and Donald Gaff13 Sacred journeys in the greater Cahokia regionB. Jacob Skousen14 Paths of the lightning arrow: the Apalachee ballgame and the persistence of landscapesJesse C. Nowak and Charles T. Rainville