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Time's River: Archaeological Syntheses from the Lower Mississippi Valley

edited by Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock
contributions by S. Homes Hogue, James H Turner, Michael L Galaty, Carl P Lipo, Kevin L Bruce, John R Underwood, Hector Neff, Gayle J. Fritz, Robert C. Dunnell, Jay K. Johnson, Philip J. Carr, Amy L Young, Ian W. Brown and H. Edwin Jackson

University of Alabama Press, 2008
Cloth: 978-0-8173-1614-3 | Paper: 978-0-8173-5489-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8112-7
Library of Congress Classification F350.8.T56 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 977

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

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 archaeological areas in North America, and it is crucial that research designs be comprehensive, coordinated, and meet current preservation and future research needs. The authors are well-respected researchers from both within and outside the region with expertise in the full range of topics that comprise American archaeology. They examine matters of method and theory, the application of materials science, geophysics, and other high-tech tools in archaeology that provide for optimum data-recovery.

Contributors:

Ian Brown, Kevin L. Bruce, Philip J. Carr, Robert C. Dunnell,
James Feathers, Gayle J. Fritz, Michael L. Galaty, S. Homes Hogue, H. Edwin Jackson, Jay K. Johnson, Carl P. Lipo, Hector Neff, Evan Peacock, Janet Rafferty, James H. Turner, John R. Underwood, Amy L. Young

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Janet Rafferty is Professor of Anthropology and Senior Research Associate at the Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University. She is a contributor to Blackland Prairies of the Gulf Coastal Plain and The Woodland Southeast.

Evan Peacock is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Senior Research Associate at the Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Mississippi State University. He is co-editor of Blackland Prairies of the Gulf Coastal Plain and a contributor to The Woodland Southeast.

REVIEWS

“This will be a critical volume to contribute to the archaeology of Mississippi, the Southeast, and North America that will stimulate vital research.”

—T. R. Kidder, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University at St. Louis

"Written for professional archaeologists, particularly those who will actually be doing cultural resource management work on this highway right-of-way. . . . Recommended. Faculty, professionals."

—CHOICE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
List of Figures	000
List of Tables 000
1. Introduction: Reconsidering the Archaeology of the Lower Mississippi River 
Valley
Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock	000
2. The Interstate 69 Project in Mississippi: Generation of an Archaeological 
Synthesis
John R. Underwood, James H. Turner, and Kevin L. Bruce	000
3. Archaeology in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Robert C. Dunnell	000
4. Archaeological Things: Languages of Observation
Robert C. Dunnell	000
5. Paleoenvironmental Modeling in the Lower Mississippi River Valley: Past 
and Future Approaches
Evan Peacock	000
6. Settlement Patterns, Occupations, and Field Methods
Janet Rafferty	000
7. Prehistoric Settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley: A Critical Review
Carl P. Lipo and Robert C. Dunnell	000
8. Absolute Dating in the Mississippi Delta
James K. Feathers	000
9. Bioarchaeology in the Mississippi Delta
S. Homes Hogue	000
10. Through the Lens of the Lithic Analyst: The Organization of Mississippi 
Delta Chipped-Stone Technologies
Philip J. Carr	000
11. Review of Ceramic Compositional Studies from In and Around the 
Mississippi Valley
Hector Neff	000
12. Ceramic Petrography and the Classification of Mississippi's 
Archaeological Pottery by Fabric: A GIS Approach
Michael L. Galaty	000
13. Faunal Research in the Yazoo Basin and Lower Mississippi Valley: Setting 
Parameters for Future Research in the I-69 Corridor, Mississippi
H. Edwin Jackson	000
14. Paleoethnobotanical Information and Issues Relevant to the I-69 Overview 
Process, Northwest Mississippi
Gayle J. Fritz	000
15. Archaeological Remote Sensing Research in the Yazoo Basin: A History and 
Evaluation
Jay K. Johnson	000
16. Culture Contact along the I-69 Corridor: Protohistoric and Historic Use 
of the Northern Yazoo Basin, Mississippi
Ian W. Brown	000
17. Sad Song in the Delta: The Potential for Historical Archaeology in the I-
69 Corridor
Amy L. Young	000
18. Fording the River: Concluding Comments
Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock	000
References Cited	000
List of Contributors	000
Index	000

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