Based on a symposium held at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in New Orleans
Includes bibliographical references and index
Prehistoric connections around the Gulf Coast / Nancy Marie White -- Rivers in the sea: the Gulf of Mexico as a cultural corridor in antiquity / S. Jeffrey K. Wilkerson -- A new look at the Gulf Coast formative / Randolph J. Widmer -- Mound builders along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern United States / Patricio Dávila Cabrera -- Sea-level rise and fluctuation on the central Texas coast: exploring cultural and ecological correlates / Robert A. Ricklis and Richard A. Weinstein -- Dumps and piles: site structure and settlement patterning on the middle and upper Texas Gulf Coast / E. Frances Gadus -- Late Holocene environments and the archaeological record of the south Texas coast / Karl W. Kibler -- Paleoagriculture on the Gulf Coast: two possible cases of the Classic period, Central Veracruz, Mexico / Annick Daneels, Fabio Flores, Emilio Ibarra, Manuel Zolá -- Perspectives on variation in Olmec settlement and polity using Mississippian models / Christopher A. Pool -- Charasteristic elements shared by northeastern Mexico and the southeastern United States / Diana Zaragoza Ocaña -- Wind jewels and paddling gods: the Mississippian southeast in the postclassic Mesoamerican world / Alice Beck Kehoe -- The American formative revisited / John E. Clark and Michelle Knoll -- Discontinuities, common foundations, short-distance interactions, and sporadic long-distance connections around the Gulf of Mexico / Nancy Marie White