Significant scholarly attention has been paid to monument construction, craft production, and leadership strategies in the Mississippian world (A.D. 1000 to A.D. 1540) of the Southeastern and Midcontinental United States. As new sites are discovered and new data brought into consideration, greater consideration can be made linking the building of large earthen mounds to social and political relationships. This article presents an archaeological and ethnohistoric consideration of mound building and mound summit use at Mound D at the Carson site, located in northwest Mississippi. Data from earthen mound excavation, mound summit architecture, material culture, and optically stimulated luminescence and radiocarbon (accelerator mass spectrometry) dating are used to discuss the formation of the monumental landscape beginning in the early 13th century. Several postulates are offered for the interpretation of mound construction and mound summit use.

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美国东南部密西西比土丘中心卡森遗址的土墩建筑和山顶建筑

美国东南部和中部大陆的密西西比世界（公元 1000 年至公元 1540 年）的纪念碑建造、工艺制作和领导战略受到了学术界的极大关注。随着新地点的发现和新数据的考虑，可以更多地考虑将大型土墩的建设与社会和政治关系联系起来。本文介绍了位于密西西比州西北部卡森遗址的土墩 D 的土墩建筑和土墩峰顶使用的考古和民族历史考虑。土丘挖掘、土丘山顶建筑、物质文化、光激发光和放射性碳（加速器质谱）测年的数据被用来讨论始于 13 世纪初的巨大景观的形成。