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Archaeological survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947 [electronic resource] / Philip Phillips, James A. Ford, and James B. Griffin ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Phillips, Philip, 1900-1994.
- Series:
- Classics in southeastern archaeology.
- Classics in southeastern archaeology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Lower Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities.
- Indians of North America.
- Indian pottery--Lower Mississippi River Valley.
- Indian pottery.
- Mississippi River Valley--Antiquities.
- Mississippi River Valley.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (626 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication. A classic work by three important scholars who document prehistoric human occupation along the lower reaches of the continent's largest river. The Lower Mississippi Survey was initiated in 1939 as a joint undertaking of three institutions: the School of Geology at Louisiana State University, the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, and the Peabody Museum at Harvard. Fieldwork began in 1940 but was halted during the war years. When fieldwork resumed in 1946, James Ford had joined the American Museum of N
- Contents:
- section 1. The geographic setting
- section 2. The archaeological field work
- section 3. Classification of the pottery
- section 4. Distribution of some Mississippi period vessel shapes and features
- section 5. Seriation analysis of potter collections
- section 6. Stratigraphy
- section 7. Correlation of archaeological sequences with recent drainage history
- section 8. Analysis of occupation site plans
- section 9. Identification of sites from documentary source
- seciton 10. Summary and conclusions.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Peabody Museum, 1951, in series: Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University ; v. 25.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8475-8
- OCLC:
- 772845311
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