“…Archaeological sites in the western mountains and on the southern piedmont exhibit Mississippian characteristics attributed to the Pisgah/Qualla and Pee Dee cultures respectively, including distinct ceramic traditions, the construction of public architecture (platform mounds), status distinctions, and the near ubiquitous practice of frontooccipital cranial shaping (Coe, 1995;Lambert, 2000bLambert, , 2001Lambert, , 2002aRodning, 2011;Ward & Davis, 1999). Archaeological sites in the western mountains and on the southern piedmont exhibit Mississippian characteristics attributed to the Pisgah/Qualla and Pee Dee cultures respectively, including distinct ceramic traditions, the construction of public architecture (platform mounds), status distinctions, and the near ubiquitous practice of frontooccipital cranial shaping (Coe, 1995;Lambert, 2000bLambert, , 2001Lambert, , 2002aRodning, 2011;Ward & Davis, 1999).…”