Title Archaeological survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947 / Philip Phillips, James A. Ford, and James B. Griffin ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen Williams

Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 564 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Classics in southeastern archaeology Classics in southeastern archaeology. 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 Summary A Dan Josselyn Memorial PublicationA 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 Notes Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Peabody Museum, 1951, in series: Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University; v. 25 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes English Print version record Subject Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley -- Antiquities Indian pottery -- Mississippi River Valley HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. Antiquities Indian pottery Indians of North America -- Antiquities SUBJECT Mississippi River Valley -- Antiquities Subject Mississippi River Valley Form Electronic book Author Ford, James Alfred, 1911-1968. Griffin, James B. (James Bennett), 1905-1997. Williams, Stephen, 1926- LC no. 2003047325 ISBN 9780817384753 0817384758

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