The venerable concept of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC) needs to be discarded, because it has become an impediment to understanding. The phenomena to which this name most commonly refers are not necessarily Southeastern, not focused primarily on the ceremonial, and most emphatically are not a "complex" in any meaningful sense. Art style, iconography, ritual practice, and exchange have divergent trajectories in the Mississippian Southeast. Progress will be made by replacing the SECC with more specific units addressing these domains, at variable scales.
Southeastern Archaeology is the journal of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, and it appears semiannually in summer and winter. The journal is peer reviewed and publishes papers on the prehistoric and historical archaeology of southeastern North America and neighboring regions. Articles cover a broad range of topics, including field reports, regional summaries, methodological innovations, and theoretical advances.
Building on two centuries' experience, Taylor & Francis has grown rapidlyover the last two decades to become a leading international academic publisher.The Group publishes over 800 journals and over 1,800 new books each year, coveringa wide variety of subject areas and incorporating the journal imprints of Routledge,Carfax, Spon Press, Psychology Press, Martin Dunitz, and Taylor & Francis.Taylor & Francis is fully committed to the publication and dissemination of scholarly information of the highest quality, and today this remains the primary goal.
This item is part of a JSTOR Collection.
For terms and use, please refer to our
Southeastern Archaeology
© 2006 Taylor & Francis, Ltd.