| Description |
1 online resource (626 pages) |
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Foreword / Stephen Williams; Preface; Introduction to 2003 Edition / Stephen Williams; Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947; Section I: The Geographic Setting; Introduction; The Survey Area; Physiography; Climate; Soils; Vegetation; Fauna; Flood Conditions; Summary and Discussion of Geographic Setting; Section II: The Archaeological Field Work; Introduction; The Survey Program; Tabulation of Sites; Section III: Classification of the Pottery; Pottery Type Descriptions; Section IV: Distribution of Some Mississippi Period Vessel Shapes and Features |
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JarsBowls; Bottles; Red and Painted Types; Effigy Forms; Eccentric Forms and Specialized Features; Negative Painting in the Eastern United States; Various Exotic Designs; Summary; Section V: Seriation Analysis of Potter Collections; Section VI: Stratigraphy; Introduction; Walls Site (13-P-1); Lake Cormorant Site (13-P-8); Oliver Site (16-N-6); Alligator Site (16-N-2); Menard Site (17-K-1); Massey Site (17-L-1); Jaketown Site (20-O-1); Shell Bluff Site (19-O-2); Rose Mound (12-N-3); Summary of Stratigraphy; Section VII: Correlation of Archaeological Sequences with Recent Drainage History |
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Fisk's Reconstruction of Recent Drainage HistoryCorrelation in the Period of Flood-Plain Aggradation; Correlation of Archaeology with the Drainage History of the Present Mississippi Meander Belt; Conclusions on the Site-Channel Correlation Approach; Section VIII: Analysis of Occupation Site Plans; Introduction; Classification of Sites; Temporal Distribution of the Several Classes of Sites; Section IX: Identification of Sites from Documentary Source; De Soto and the 1541 Date Line; The Identification of Quapaw Sites of the Period 1673-1690 |
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1541 to 1673: Cultural and Political Discontinuities and Their Possible CausesSection X: Summary and Conclusions; Authors' Review; Summary by Periods; The Origins of Mississippi Culture in the Survey Area; Chronological Alignments, Cultural and Calendrical; The Pattern of Eastern Prehistory; References; Collotype Figures; About the Indexes / Stephen Williams; Indexes:; Main Index; Site Descriptor Index; Pottery Descriptor Index; Other Artifacts Index |
| 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 Natural History, which assumed cospons |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Lower Mississippi River Valley -- Antiquities
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Indian pottery -- Lower Mississippi River Valley
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Antiquities
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Indian pottery
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Indians of North America -- Antiquities
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| SUBJECT |
Mississippi River Valley -- Antiquities
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| Subject |
Mississippi River Valley
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ford, James Alfred, 1911-1968.
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Griffin, James B. (James Bennett), 1905-1997.
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| ISBN |
9780817384753 |
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0817384758 |
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