Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley
Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley

Author: Dan F. Morse

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2014-05-10

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1483260968

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Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley describes an archeological reconstruction of the preceding 11,000 years of an extraordinarily rich environment centered within the largest river system north of the Amazon. This book focuses on the lowlands of the Mississippi Valley from just north of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Arkansas River. Organized into 13 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the territory between the Ohio and Arkansas rivers. This text then attempts to humanize the archeological interpretations by reference to social organization, settlement system, economy, religion, and politics. Other chapters focus on understanding the nature of change through time in the Central Mississippi Valley. This book discusses as well the difference between an old braided stream surface and the younger meander belt system. The final chapter deals with the investigation of prehistoric Indian remains. This book is a valuable resource for archeologists, zoologists, and scientific hobbyists.

Middle Mississippi Exploitation of Animal Populations
Middle Mississippi Exploitation of Animal Populations

Author: Bruce D. Smith

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1949098044

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Bruce D. Smith reports on the faunal remains of seven Middle Mississippi sites in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missouri, in the northern part of the Lower Mississippi River Valley. Remains recovered include those from white-tailed deer, raccoon, fish, turkey, rabbits, black bear, and more. The seven sites—the Banks site, the Chucalissa site, the Gooseneck site, the Lilbourn site, Powers Fort, the Snodgrass site, and the Turner site—date to between AD 1000 and 1550.

Engaged Anthropology
Engaged Anthropology

Author: Michelle Hegmon

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0915703580

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This collection of essays is based on the 2005 Society for American Archaeology symposium and presents research that epitomizes Richard I. Ford’s approach of engaged anthropology. This transdisciplinary approach integrates archaeological research with perspectives from ethnography, history, and ecology, and engages the anthropologist with Native partners and with socio-natural landscapes. Research papers largely focus on the U.S. Southwest, but also consider other areas of North America, issues related to museums collections, and indigenous approaches to materials research.

For the Director
For the Director

Author: Charles E. Cleland

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1977-01-01

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 194909801X

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In 1975, James B. Griffin retired as director of the University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology. During his three decades as director and professor, he had become one of the leading archaeologists in North America and had tremendous influence over the next generation of archaeological research. To honor the man and his work, nineteen scholars contributed essays to this volume. Contributors include Ted Bank, Richard Wilkinson, Donald Janzen, George Quimby, and H. Martin Wobst. Richard Ford and Volney Jones compiled a guide to Griffin’s extensive published works.

The Snodgrass Site of the Powers Phase of Southeast Missouri
The Snodgrass Site of the Powers Phase of Southeast Missouri

Author: James E. Price

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1979-01-01

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 0932206778

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In this volume, the authors report on the complete excavation of the Snodgrass site, a prehistoric Mississippian village in southeast Missouri. More than 30 structures were completely excavated over seven years of fieldwork. Price and Griffin present descriptions and analyses of the structures, artifacts (primarily lithics and ceramics), and burials found at the site. Their work provides a look at the social complexity and patterned lifeways that existed within a prehistoric village population.

Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley
Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley

Author: Charles H. McNutt

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 1996-05-30

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0817308075

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Experts throughout the Central Mississippi Valley present current views of the regional cultural sequences supported by data concerning recent surveys and excavations.

The Spiro Ceremonial Center
The Spiro Ceremonial Center

Author: James A. Brown

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 0915703394

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In Volume I of this two-volume set, James A. Brown reports on and interprets decades of archaeological investigation at the Spiro Ceremonial Center, a major site along the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma. In Volume 2, he describes the archaeological collections in detail, covering burials, ceramics, stone tools, pipes, beads, textiles, ornaments, and animal bone. Foreword by James B. Griffin. Contributions by Alice M. Brues, Lyle W. Konigsberg, Paul W. Parmalee, and David H. Stansbery.