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

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Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables x 1. Introduction: Reconsidering the Archaeology of the Lower Mississippi River Valley Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock 1 2. The Interstate 69 Project in Mississippi: Generation of an Archaeological Synthesis John R. Underwood, James H. Turner, and Kevin L. Bruce 8 3. Archaeology in the Lower Mississippi Valley Robert C. Dunnell 16 4. Archaeological Things: Languages of Observation Robert C. Dunnell 45 5. Paleoenvironmental Modeling in the Central and Lower Mississippi River Valley: Past and Future Approaches Evan Peacock 69 6. Settlement Patterns, Occupations, and Field Methods Janet Rafferty 99 7. Prehistoric Settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley: A Critical Review Carl P. Lipo and Robert C. Dunnell 125 8. Absolute Dating in the Mississippi Delta James K. Feathers 168 9. Bioarchaeology in the Mississippi Delta S. Homes Hogue 182 10. Through the Lens of the Lithic Analyst: The Organization of Mississippi Delta Chipped-Stone Technologies Philip J. Carr 201 11. Review of Ceramic Compositional Studies from In and Around the Mississippi Valley Hector Neff 223 12. Ceramic Petrography and the Classification of Mississippi’s Archaeological Pottery by Fabric: A GIS Approach Michael L. Galaty 243 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 274 14. Paleoethnobotanical Information and Issues Relevant to the I-69 Overview Process, Northwest Mississippi Gayle J. Fritz 299 15. Archaeological Remote Sensing Research in the Yazoo Basin: A History and Evaluation Jay K. Johnson 344 16. Culture Contact along the I-69 Corridor: Protohistoric and Historic Use of the Northern Yazoo Basin, Mississippi Ian W. Brown 357 17. Sad Song in the Delta: The Potential for Historical Archaeology in the I-69 Corridor Amy L. Young 395 18. Fording the River: Concluding Comments Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock 426 References Cited 433 List of Contributors 535 Index 539 vi / Contents ...