Vernon James Knight, Jr, is Professor of Anthropology and College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Board Fellow at the University of Alabama. He is a recipient of research grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, among others. The author of numerous books and articles, his book Mound Excavations at Moundville: Architecture, Elites, and Social Order was the winner of the 2011 Society for American Archaeology scholarly book prize.
1. Preliminaries: an iconography of prehistoric images
2. Style
3. Form and referent
4. Configurational analysis
5. Ethnographic analogy
6. The logic of iconographic method in prehistory.
