Implications of Plant Remains from the East Face of Monks Mound

Neal H. Lopinot is a Research Professor and Director of the Center for Archaeological Research at Missouri State University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1984. His research interests include heritage management, archaeobotany, and archaeology of the central United States.

Timothy Schilling is an archaeologist with the Midwest Archeological Center in Lincoln, Nebraska. He obtained his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis in 2010. His research interests include complex societies, North American archaeology, and geoarchaeological methods.

Gayle Fritz is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Paleoethnobotany Laboratory atWashington University in St. Louis. She obtained her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1986. Her research interests include domestication of plants, especially those in the Eastern Agricultural Complex, development and spread of agricultural societies, historical ecology, and Colonial period foodways in North America.

John E. Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University ofWisconsin- Madison in 1980. His research interests are focused on issues of complexity in Easter North America, especially the beginnings of urbanism and the role of ritual and cosmology in this process, focusing in particular on Cahokia and the surrounding Emergent.