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abf-789	Marti Gil, Irene	A History of Platform Mound Ceremonialism: Finding Meaning in Elevated Ground (2021): By M.C. Kassabaum 	2024	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1537	55	33	This connection is highlighted in the Epilogue: the author concludes that the history of platform mound construction in the US is not over, thus it is essential to incorporate contemporary native voices in the study of mounds. Although these mounds vary greatly in size, shape, construction materials and techniques, and functions, platform mounds share one common feature—they are diachronically persistent forms of public architecture that appeared in the monumental repertoire since the inception of moundbuilding in the late Middle and early Late Archaic (ca.5500 BCE) 2 Chapter 4 details the proliferation of platform mounds during the Middle Woodland period (100BCE-500), which was associated with the Hopewell phenomenon but influenced by the preexisting Archaic background.	cache/abf-789.pdf	txt/abf-789.txt