Bottle Creek : a Pensacola culture site in South Alabama / edited by Ian W. Brown ; foreword by David S. Brose ; with contributions by Penelope B. Drooker ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brown, Ian W.

Drooker, Penelope B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mississippian culture--Alabama--Mound Island.

Mississippian culture.

Mississippian pottery--Alabama--Mound Island.

Mississippian pottery.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Alabama--Mound Island.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Bottle Creek Site (Ala.).

Mound Island (Ala.)--Antiquities.

Mound Island (Ala.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the first comprehensive study and analysis of the most important Mississippian mound site on the north-central Gulf coast. Consisting of 18 earthen mounds and numerous additional habitation areas dating to A.D. 1250-1550, the Bottle Creek site was first professionally investigated in 1932 when David L. DeJarnette of the Alabama Museum of Natural History began work there to determine if the site had a cultural relationship with Moundville, connected to the north by a river system. Although partially mapped in the 1880's, Bottle Creek's location in the vast Mobile-Tensaw Delta of Baldwin

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction to the Bottle Creek Site; 2. Out of the Moundville Shadow: The Origin and Evolution of Pensacola Culture; 3. A Proposed Construction Sequence of the Mound B Terrace at Bottle Creek; 4. Historic Aboriginal Reuse of a Mississippian Mound, Mound L at Bottle Creek; 5. Food Plant Remains from Excavations in Mounds A, B, C, D, and L at Bottle Creek; 6. The Use of Plants in Mound-Related Activities at Bottle Creek and Moundville; 7. Zooarchaeological Remains from Bottle Creek

8. A Functional Comparison of Pottery Vessel Shapes from Bottle Creek 9. The Bottle Creek Microlithic Industry; 10. Matting and Pliable Fabrics from Bottle Creek; 11. Water Travel and Mississippian Settlement at Bottle Creek; 12. Concluding Thoughts on Bottle Creek and Its Position in the Mississippian World; A. Archaeological Phases Represented at the Bottle Creek Site; B. Radiocarbon Dates Secured at the Bottle Creek Site; References Cited; Contributors; Index

Notes:

"A Dan Josselyn memorial publication."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-260) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8172-4

OCLC:

614555672