Architecture embodies human agency in all of its dimensions and effective scales.Specifically, the wooden posts of Mississippian peoples in the American midcontinent were simultaneously spatial, material, and corporeal dimensions of the process of cultural construction and contestation. Our reconsideration of the lowly postmold is based on the principle of physicality that, in turn, alters the ways in which we pose research questions and interpret archaeological data. A historicalprocessual methodology involves three procedural fundamentals: identifying practical variability, comparing genealogies of practices, and tacking between lines of evidence at multiple scales of analysis. KEY WORDS: agency; practice; architecture; Mississippian.Recent trends in archaeology bring fundamental anthropological questions back to the drawing board: What causes cultural change? How are we to understand it? Admittedly, some contemporary answers to these questions may seem more complicated than the questions themselves, involving theories-agency, practice, performance, landscape, embodiment, etc.-around which a succession of avant-garde camps have pitched their tents (

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