... Town Creek contain clusters of features, most of which The Archaeology of Town CreekEDMOND A. BOUDREAUXTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS Tuscaloosa12 / Chapter 1.large portions of the site ... societies are thought to have made political decisions through councils in which a number of com-munity leaders reached consensus, community- level decisions in Mississip-pian societies seem ... eastern half of the Southeast, containing Georgia, South Carolina, and contiguous portions of Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, and Tennessee (Figure 1.3) (Ferguson 1971:7). The co- occurrence...