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Online-Ressource (567 p.)
ISBN:
9780817316143
Content:
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 Delta is one of the richest arc
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Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1. Introduction: Reconsidering the Archaeology of the Lower Mississippi River Valley; 2. The Interstate 69 Project in Mississippi: Generation of an Archaeological Synthesis; 3. Archaeology in the Lower Mississippi Valley; 4. Archaeological Things: Languages of Observation; 5. Paleoenvironmental Modeling in the Central and Lower Mississippi River Valley: Past and Future Approaches; 6. Settlement Patterns, Occupations, and Field Methods; 7. Prehistoric Settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley: A Critical Review
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8. Absolute Dating in the Mississippi Delta9. Bioarchaeology in the Mississippi Delta; 10. Through the Lens of the Lithic Analyst: The Organization of Mississippi Delta Chipped-Stone Technologies; 11. Review of Ceramic Compositional Studies from In and Around the Mississippi Valley; 12. Ceramic Petrography and the Classification of Mississippi's Archaeological Pottery by Fabric: A GIS Approach; 13. Faunal Research in the Yazoo Basin and Lower Mississippi Valley: Setting Parameters for Future Research in the I-69 Corridor, Mississippi
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14. Paleoethnobotanical Information and Issues Relevant to the I-69 Overview Process, Northwest Mississippi15. Archaeological Remote Sensing Research in the Yazoo Basin: A History and Evaluation; 16. Culture Contact along the I-69 Corridor: Protohistoric and Historic Use of the Northern Yazoo Basin, Mississippi; 17. Sad Song in the Delta: The Potential for Historical Archaeology in the I-69 Corridor; 18. Fording the River: Concluding Comments; References Cited; List of Contributors; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817381127
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780817316143
Additional Edition:
Print version Time's River : Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi Valley
Language:
English
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