Archaeological Survey Of The Town Creek Watershed Mississippi
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Archaeological Survey Of The Town Creek Watershed Mississippi
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Author : Tim S. Mistovich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Archaeological Survey Of The Town Creek Watershed Mississippi written by Tim S. Mistovich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Indians of North America categories.
The Archaeology Of Town Creek
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Author : Edmond A. Boudreaux
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2007-11-04
The Archaeology Of Town Creek written by Edmond A. Boudreaux and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-04 with Architecture categories.
Provides new insights into the community pattern and leadership roles at a major Mississippian archaeological site The sequence of change for public architecture during the Mississippian period may reflect a centralization of political power through time. In the research presented here, some of the community-level assumptions attributed to the appearance of Mississippian mounds are tested against the archaeological record of the Town Creek site—the remains of a town located on the northeastern edge of the Mississippian culture area. In particular, the archaeological record of Town Creek is used to test the idea that the appearance of Mississippian platform mounds was accompanied by the centralization of political authority in the hands of a powerful chief. A compelling argument has been made that mounds were the seats and symbols of political power within Mississippian societies. While platform mounds have been a part of Southeastern Native American communities since at least 100 B.C., around A.D. 400 leaders in some communities began to place their houses on top of earthen mounds—an act that has been interpreted as an attempt to legitimize personal authority by a community leader through the appropriation of a powerful, traditional, community-oriented symbol. Platform mounds at a number of sites were preceded by a distinctive type of building called an earthlodge—a structure with earth-embanked walls and an entrance indicated by short, parallel wall trenches. Earthlodges in the Southeast have been interpreted as places where a council of community leaders came together to make decisions based on consensus. In contrast to the more inclusive function proposed for premound earthlodges, it has been argued that access to the buildings on top of Mississippian platform mounds was limited to a much smaller subset of the community. If this was the case and if ground-level earthlodges were more accessible than mound-summit structures, then access to leaders and leadership may have decreased through time. Excavations at the Town Creek archaeological site have shown that the public architecture there follows the earthlodge-to-platform mound sequence that is well known across the South Appalachian subarea of the Mississippian world. The clear changes in public architecture coupled with the extensive exposure of the site's domestic sphere make Town Creek an excellent case study for examining the relationship among changes in public architecture and leadership within a Mississippian society.
Archaeological Survey In Mississippi 1974 1975
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Author : John T. Penman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Archaeological Survey In Mississippi 1974 1975 written by John T. Penman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Archaeological surveying categories.
Town Creek Watershed Lee County
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Town Creek Watershed Lee County written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
Ocmulgee Archaeology 1936 1986
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Author : David J. Hally
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2009-11-01
Ocmulgee Archaeology 1936 1986 written by David J. Hally and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-01 with Social Science categories.
From 1933 to 1941, Macon was the site of the largest archaeological excavation ever undertaken in Georgia and one of the most significant archaeological projects to be initiated by the federal government during the depression. The project was administered by the National Park Service and funded at times by such government programs as the Works Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, and Civil Works Administration. At its peak in 1955, more than eight hundred laborers were employed in more than a dozen separate excavations of prehistoric mounds and villages. The best-known excavations were conducted at the Macon Plateau site, the area President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed as the Ocmulgee National Monument in 1936. Although a wealth of material was recovered from the site in the 1930s, little provision was made for analyzing and reporting it. Consequently, much information is still unpublished. The sixteen essays in this volume were presented at a symposium to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Ocmulgee National Monument. The symposium provided archaeologists with an opportunity to update the work begun a half-century before and to bring it into the larger context of southeastern history and general advances in archaeological research and methodology. Among the topics discussed are platform mounds, settlement patterns, agronomic practices, earth lodges, human skeletal remains, Macon Plateau culture origins, relations of site inhabitants with other aboriginal societies and Europeans, and the challenges of administering excavations and park development.
Archaeological Survey In The Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley 1940 1947
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Author : Philip Phillips
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2003-10-08
Archaeological Survey In The Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley 1940 1947 written by Philip Phillips and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-08 with History categories.
Documents prehistoric human occupation along the lower reaches of the Mississippi River A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication The Lower Mississippi Survey was initiated in 1939 as a joint undertaking of three institutions: the School of Geology at Louisiana State University, the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, and the Peabody Museum at Harvard. Fieldwork began in 1940 but was halted during the war years. When fieldwork resumed in 1946, James Ford had joined the American Museum of Natural History, which assumed co-sponsorship from LSU. The purpose of the Lower Mississippi Survey (LMS)—a term used to identify both the fieldwork and the resultant volume—was to investigate the northern two-thirds of the alluvial valley of the lower Mississippi River, roughly from the mouth of the Ohio River to Vicksburg. This area covers about 350 miles and had been long regarded as one of the principal hot spots in eastern North American archaeology. Phillips, Ford, and Griffin surveyed over 12,000 square miles, identified 382 archaeological sites, and analyzed over 350,000 potsherds in order to define ceramic typologies and establish a number of cultural periods. The commitment of these scholars to developing a coherent understanding of the archaeology of the area, as well as their mutual respect for one another, enabled the publication of what is now commonly considered the bible of southeastern archaeology. Originally published in 1951 as volume 25 of the Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, this work has been long out of print. Because Stephen Williams served for 35 years as director of the LMS at Harvard, succeeding Phillips, and was closely associated with the authors during their lifetimes, his new introduction offers a broad overview of the work’s influence and value, placing it in a contemporary context.
An Archaeological Overview Of The Tombigbee River Basin Alabama And Mississippi
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Author : Eugene M. Futato
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
An Archaeological Overview Of The Tombigbee River Basin Alabama And Mississippi written by Eugene M. Futato and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Archaeological surveying categories.
The F L Brinkley Midden 22ts729 Archaeological Investigations In The Yellow Creek Watershed Tishomingo County Mississippi
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Author : Jeffrey L. Otinger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
The F L Brinkley Midden 22ts729 Archaeological Investigations In The Yellow Creek Watershed Tishomingo County Mississippi written by Jeffrey L. Otinger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Excavations (Archaeology) categories.
Excavations at the F.L. Brinkley Midden (22Ts729), in Tishomingo County, Mississippi, were conducted by the Office of Archaeological Research, University of Alabama. Excavations were carried out to mitigate the destruction of the site by the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway project. The F.L. Brinkley Midden is a stratified accretional midden dating from the Early Archaic through the Middle Woodland period. At the beginning of investigations, the site had seen extensive damage. Nevertheless much of the site, especially the lower levels, remained undisturbed, and an excavated sample of the site was obtained by hand excavation, gradder transects, and backhoe trenches. Artifactual analysis indicates a close correspondence between physical stratigraphy and cultural stratigraphy. A large number of pit features were recorded from all levels of the site, including ten problematical large basin shaped features. These large basin shaped features, which date to the Late Archaic period, are interpreted as the remains of earth covered semisubterranean structures.
Archaeological Testing Investigations At 58 Sites In The River And Canal Sections Of The Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway
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Author : Judith Ann Bense
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Archaeological Testing Investigations At 58 Sites In The River And Canal Sections Of The Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway written by Judith Ann Bense and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Alabama categories.
Bulletin Alabama Museum Of Natural History
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Author : Alabama Museum of Natural History
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Bulletin Alabama Museum Of Natural History written by Alabama Museum of Natural History and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Natural history categories.