To compare and contrast the diverse lifeways that arose among the Native North American peoples.
To present some of the different forms of hierarchical organization in Native North America, to consider how these social forms arose, and to see how these different organizational formations leave different archaeological signatures.
To contrast subsistence patterns across space and through time among people who lived in different regions of North America.
To understand how archaeologists derive information about community plan, residential patterns, and status relationships through the careful study of artifacts and archaeological sites.
To describe the development of Mississippian centers and compare them with sites elsewhere in North America.
