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Archaeological Investigations in the Upper Tombigbee Valley, Mississippi: Phase I - Microfiche
1983
Same as 11 Unclassified ISa. DECL ASSI FICATION/DOWNGRADING SCHEDULE *. 16. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT (of thile Report)-' Unlimited i40 *-17. DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT (of the abstract entered in Block 20, if different from Report) IS. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 19. KEY WORDS (Continue on reverse side It neceeeary and Identify by block number) Midden Mounds, Archaic, Woodland, Tombigbee, Mississippi 20. ABST'RACT rcant'ruest, reverse e hb It necewary md Identify by block number) Data recovery to mitigate construction impacts was accomplished by the 6 University of West Florida's Office of Cultural and Archaeological Research at four sites in the canal section of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Large scale excavations conducted at the Beech and Oak sites, 221t622 and 221t624, produced a wealth of information on the preceramic Late Archaic occupations of these two sites, as well as their other prehistoric components. With some engineering to permit similar large scale excavations below the water table, investigations at the Hickory site, 221t621, DD I ° 1473 EDITION OF NOV 6SS OBSOLETE SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF THIS PAGE
Archaeological Investigations in the Upper Tombigbee Valley, Mississippi: Phase I. Volume 4
1983
: This document is a report of archaeological investigations at eleven sites in the Canal and River Section of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. These investigations include the excavation of four sites and the testing of seven others. This report is a description of this project and includes the research design, a summary of the archaeological background, and a full description of the data recovery methods and techniques. For each site investigated in the project, a complete report of the specific procedures and a description of the results are provided. A summary of the total results is also contained in the final chapter. Attached to the report are a series of special studies, manuals for field, laboratory and data methods, and the original detailed research design. Also included is a complete data set on microfiche which presents the location, classification and measurement of all specimens recovered in the project.
Southeastern Archaeology, 2011
Middle Woodland and early Late Woodland monuments generally have been interpreted as ceremonial spaces that integrated communities both within and among regions. This article presents information on the early Late Woodland component at the Jackson Landing site, a large site with a platform mound and semicircular earthioork, located on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Earlier research is synthesized with more recent investigations of the mound to argue that the site's monuments were built during the early Late Woodland period between approximately A.D. 400 to 700. Determining when Jackson Landing's monuments ivere built is important because their construction provides a temporal baseline for regional and, perhaps, interregional social integration along the central Gulf Coast.
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Tennessee Anthropologist 18(1):28-44, 1993
Tennessee Division ofArchaeology personnel have salvaged archaeological data from a privately-owned Mississippian mound-village complex 011 the Harpeth River on twO occasions over the past decade. The resulls of these limited salvage projects, along with a review of antiquarian observations ofthe site are presemed and imerpreted below. PrilTlilry occupation of the site area is interpreted as occurring during the 1hruston Phase (ca. A.D. 1250-1450), based on diagnostic ani/acts and a single radiocarbon date.
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Late Woodland-Emergent Mississippian Occupation and Plant Use at the AE Harmon Site (11MS136)
Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, 2010
The 2002 Southern Illinois University Edwardsville field school was con ducted at the AE Harmon site (11 MSI 36), located on the bluff above the American Bottom in Edwardsville, Illinois. Artifacts recovered from the plow zone indicate that the site was occupied from the Archaic through Mississippian periods. Sub-plow zone excavations revealed a prehis toric house structure and six pit features. The style of the structure, as well as artifacts recovered from the structure and several associated pits, indicate occupation during the Late Woodland and Emergent Missis sippian periods. Prehistoric activities at the site included manufacture, use, and maintenance of lithic artifacts, as well as ceramic manufacture. Subsistence remains show that native cultigens, maize, nuts, wild plants, fish, and venison were consumed. The sample of plant remains report ed here adds to the Late Woodland-Emergent Mississippian paleoeth nobotanical database for the American Bottom, most notably for the Late Woodland Sponemann phase. Sponemann phase inhabitants of the site collected wild plant resources and cultivated native seed crops. Whether they grew maize is uncertain since the one fragment of maize identified in a Sponemann phase feature was probably intrusive. This