Spiro, Oklahoma
St. Mary's, Missouri
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Notes:
Another kind of connection may be illustrated by this pair of gorgets whose representation is so similar as to suggest, even,that they were made by the same hands. One specimen is from southeast Missouri and the other from Spiro in Oklahoma. There are a number of other pairs of extremely similar gorgets that serve to link sites across the entire Southeast.
The exchange connections of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex are even clearer today than they were to Waring and Holder many years ago. Much of what we call a "complex" is more of an "exchange network" --at least so far as the 13th century Southern "Cult" is concerned.