Catawba Valley Mississippian : ceramics, chronology, and Catawba Indians / David G. Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, David G. (David Gilbert), 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catawba Indians--Antiquities.

Catawba Indians.

Catawba Indians--History.

Mississippian culture.

Catawba River Valley (N.C. and S.C.)--Antiquities.

Catawba River Valley (N.C. and S.C.).

Yadkin River Valley (N.C.)--Antiquities.

Yadkin River Valley (N.C.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An excellent example of ethnohistory and archaeology working together, this model study reveals the origins of the Catawba Indians of North Carolina. By the 18th century, the modern Catawba Indians were living along the river and throughout the valley that bears their name near the present North Carolina-South Carolina border, but little was known of their history and origins. With this elegant study, David Moore proposes a model that bridges the archaeological record of the protohistoric Catawba Valley with written accounts of the Catawba Indians from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, thus

Contents:

Catawba Valley ethnohistory and Catawba origins

Upper Catawba Valley sites and ceramics

Upper Yadkin Valley sites and ceramics

Middle and lower Catawba Valley sites and ceramics

Late prehistoric and early historic period Catawba Valley chronology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-344) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8209-7

OCLC:

609839963