Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-266) and index.

1. Why the archaeology of everyday matters? / Sarah E. Price and Philip J. Carr -- 2. When the levee breaks: small decisions and big floods at the end of the last ice age / D. Shane Miller and Jesse Tune -- 3. Chaos theory and the contact period in the southeast / Christopher B. Rodning, Jayur Madhusudan Mehta, Bryan S. Haley, and David J. Watt -- 4. Community practice in a post-removal Cherokee town / Lance Greene -- 5. Daily lives of early archaic foragers in the mid-south / Kandace D. Hollenbach and Stephen B. Carmody -- 6. An ethnoarchaeological interpretation of the Salt Life, A.D. 1200 / Ashley A. Dumas -- 7. Maintaining relations with deer: a day in the life in the middle archaic / Christopher R. Moore and Richard W. Jefferies -- 8. Itineraries of late archaic shell and ceramic cooking vessels / Asa R. Randall and Zackary I. Gilmore -- 9. Crafting everyday matters in the middle and late woodland periods / Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Martin Menz, and Lori O'Neal -- 10. Stone tool life meets everyday life / Philip J. Carr and Andrew P. Bradbury -- 11. Role of dogs in everyday life / Renee B. Walker -- 12. Mound building as daily practice / Tristram R. Kidder and Sarah C. Sherwood -- 13. Gathering in the late woodland: plazas and gathering places as everyday space / Casey R. Barrier and Megan C. Kassabaum -- 14. Matters and mattering / Beth A. Conklin -- 15. Everyday archaeologist matters / Sarah E. Price and Philip J. Carr.