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Measuring the flow of time : the works of James A. Ford, 1935-1941 / edited and with an introduction by Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman; foreword by Gordon R. Willey.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Classics in southeastern archaeology.
- Classics in southeastern archaeology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ford, James Alfred, 1911-1968.
- Ford, James Alfred.
- Anthropologists--United States--Biography.
- Anthropologists.
- Archaeologists--United States--Biography.
- Archaeologists.
- Indians of North America--Louisiana--Antiquities.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Mississippi--Antiquities.
- Louisiana--Antiquities.
- Louisiana.
- Mississippi--Antiquities.
- Mississippi.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (608 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication This collection of Ford's works focuses on the development of ceramic chronology-a key tool in Americanist archaeology. When James Ford began archaeological fieldwork in 1927, scholars divided time simply into prehistory and history. Though certainly influenced by his colleagues, Ford devoted his life to establishing a chronology for prehistory based on ceramic types, and today he deserves credit for bringing chronological order to the vast archaeological record of the Mississippi Valley. This b
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; References; 1. From Excavations at a Prehistoric Indian Village Site in Mississippi; 2. An Introduction to Louisiana Archeology; 3. Outline of Louisiana and Mississippi Pottery Horizons; 4. Ceramic Decoration Sequence at an Old Indian Village Site near Sicily Island, Louisiana; 5. Analysis of Indian Village Site Collections from Louisiana and Mississippi; 6. Archaeological Methods Applicable to Louisiana; 7. The Indian Mounds of Iberville Parish; 8. Report of the Conference on Southeastern Pottery Typology
- 9. A Chronological Method Applicable to the Southeast10. From Crooks Site, a Marksville Period Burial Mound in La Salle Parish, Louisiana; 11. An Interpretation of the Prehistory of the Eastern United States; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 565-569) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8366-2
- 0-585-32387-9
- OCLC:
- 648711520
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