Cover Page -- Town Creek Indian Mound -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Some Names and Abbreviations -- Part 1 Introduction -- 1 History -- 2 A Fifty-Year Program, 1937-1987 -- Part 2 Excavations -- 3 Field Methods -- 4 The Mound -- 5 The Plaza -- Part 3 Natural Resources -- 6 Stone Available and Used -- 7 Plant Resources -- 8 Animal Remains -- Part 4 Arts, Crafts, Tools, and Weapons -- 9 Pottery -- 10 Chipped and Ground Stone -- 11 Pipes, Ornaments, and Implements -- Part 5 Interpretations -- 12 The People of Town Creek -- 13 Mortuaries and Burial Practices -- 14 Reconstruction of the Town House on the Mound -- 15 Town Creek, 1937-1987 -- Appendix 1 Early Records of Excavations -- A. Morris R. Mitchell's Letter to the Bureau of American Ethnology -- B. From the Rockingham Post-Dispatch, 10 November 1927 -- C. Reply to Morris R. Mitchell from the Bureau of American Ethnology -- D. To Morris R. Mitchell from His Mother, Alice Broadus Mitchell -- E. H.M. Doerschuk's Report on the Town Creek Mound -- F. Douglas L. Rights's Notes on the Richmond and Anson Sectors, 1935 -- G. Douglas L. Rights's Notes on Haywood Mound (Revised), 1937 -- Appendix 2 Analysis of Historic Artifacts and Astronomical Alignment -- H. Analysis of Historic Artifacts from the Town Creek Excavations John W. Clauser, Jr. -- I. Comments on Historical Artifacts from Excavations at Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site Stanley South -- J. Astronomical Alignment of the Town Creek Indian Mound, Mount Gilead, North Carolina Vance Tiede -- Bibliography -- Index.