What method(s) did Vernon Knight use to help reconstruct Moundville's social organization?

a. He analyzed exotic burial goods and reconstructed the trade routes people would have used to acquire the high status items.
b. He analyzed the grave goods of commoners in order to ascertain what types of resources were available to them.
c. He analyzed Moundville's layout and compared it to ethnographic data on Chickasaw kinship systems and residential patterns.
d. He found ethnographic interviews in which the Chickasaw descendents of the Moundville culture described various aspects of their ancestors' social system.
e. He used x-ray fluorescence (XRF) on the material remains.


c

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