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Time's river : archaeological syntheses from the lower Mississippi River Valley / edited by Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeology--Lower Mississippi River Valley.
- Archaeology.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Lower Mississippi River Valley.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Prehistoric peoples--Lower Mississippi River Valley.
- Prehistoric peoples.
- Indians of North America--Lower Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities.
- Indians of North America.
- Lower Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities.
- Lower Mississippi River Valley.
- Interstate 69--Antiquities.
- Interstate 69.
- Lower Mississippi River Valley--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (567 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume stands as a key general resource for archaeologists working in the region extending from Louisiana through Mississippi north to Missouri and Kentucky, and it represents an opportunity to influence for decades a large part of the archaeological work to take place in the Southeast. The book responds to a need for a comprehensive archaeological overview of the Lower Mississippi Valley that forms a portion of an interstate corridor spanning nine states that will run from southern Michigan to the Texas-Mexico border. The culturally sensitive Mississippi Delt
- Contents:
- Introduction: Reconsidering the archaeology of the lower Mississippi River Valley / Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock
- The Interstate 69 project in Mississippi : generation of an archaeological synthesis / John R. Underwood, James H. Turner, and Kevin L. Bruce
- Archaeology in the lower Mississippi Valley / Robert C. Dunnell
- Archaeological things : languages of observation / Robert C. Dunnell
- Paleoenvironmental modeling in the lower Mississippi River Valley : past and future approaches / Evan Peacock
- Settlement patterns, occupations, and field methods / Janet Rafferty
- Prehistoric settlement in the lower Mississippi Valley : a critical review / Carl P. Lipo and Robert C. Dunnell
- Absolute dating in the Mississippi Delta / James K. Feathers
- Bioarchaeology in the Mississippi Delta / S. Homes Hogue
- Through the lens of the lithic analyst : the organization of Mississippi Delta chipped-stone technologies / Philip J. Carr
- Review of ceramic compositional studies from in and around the Mississippi Valley / Hector Neff
- Ceramic petrography and the classification of Mississippi's archaeological pottery by fabric : a GIS approach / Michael L. Galaty
- Faunal research in the Yazoo Basin and lower Mississippi Valley : setting parameters for future research in the I-69 corridor, Mississippi / H. Edwin Jackson
- Paleoethnobotanical information and issues relevant to the I-69 overview process, northwest Mississippi / Gayle J. Fritz
- Archaeological remote sensing research in the Yazoo Basin : a history and evaluation / Jay K. Johnson
- Culture contact along the I-69 corridor : protohistoric and historic use of the northern Yazoo Basin, Mississippi / Ian W. Brown
- Sad song in the Delta : the potential for historical archaeology in the I-69 corridor / Amy L. Young
- Fording the river : concluding comments / Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-533) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8112-0
- OCLC:
- 609217471
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