Exploring southeastern archaeology /
"This volume includes original scholarship on a wide array of current archaeological research across the South. One essay explores the effects of climate on early cultures in Mississippi. Contributors reveal the production and distribution of stone effigy beads, which were centered in southwest...
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University Press of Mississippi,
2015
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1. Introductory Remarks; PART I: PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; Chapter 2. Archaeology on the National Forests of North Mississippi: A Brief Retrospective; Chapter 3. Pimento Cheese and Bacon? Revisiting Mounds in the Lower Mississippi Delta; PART II: THE ARCHAIC PERIOD; Chapter 4. Early Holocene Climate in the Eastern United States: A View from Mississippi; Chapter 5. Sam Brookes and Prehistoric Effigy Beads of the Southeast; Chapter 6. Archaic Chert Beads and Craft Specialization: Application of an Organization of Technology Model.
- Chapter 7. From Missouri to Mississippi to Florida: Some Research on the Distribution of Poverty Point ObjectsPART III: THE WOODLAND AND MISSISSIPPIAN PERIODS; Chapter 8. Artifact Assemblages from Two Early Woodland Tchula-Period Sites on the Holly Springs National Forest, North Mississippi; Chapter 9. The Slate Springs Mound, a Woodland-Period Platform Mound in the North Central Hills of Mississippi; Chapter 10. Mississippian-Period Occupations in the Ackerman Unit of the Tombigbee National Forest.
- Chapter 11. Owl Creek, Thelma, and Bessemer Mounds: Large Peripheral Mississippian Mound Groups and Bet-HedgingChapter 12. Plaquemine Culture Pottery from the Great Ravine at the Anna Site (22AD500), Adams County, Mississippi; PART IV: THE CONTACT AND HISTORIC PERIODS; Chapter 13. Excavations at the South Thomas Street Site (22LE1002): An Early Eighteenth-Century Hamlet Located on the Periphery of the Major Chickasaw Settlement in Northeastern Mississippi.
- Chapter 14. The Symbiotic Relationship between the National Forests of Mississippi and the Civilian Conservation Corps: The Early History of the Chickasawhay Ranger DistrictChapter 15. Logging Out the Delta: From Mosquitoville to the Sardis & Delta Railroad; PART V: REFLECTIONS; Chapter 16. Brookes@Forest: Building an Epistemic Community for Archaeological Research-in-Action; Appendix. Citation for USDA Forest Service National Heritage Award; Bibliography; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.
