Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley
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A01=Dan F. Morse
A01=Phyllis A. Morse
American Indians
archaeology
artifacts
Author_Dan F. Morse
Author_Phyllis A. Morse
Category=NKD
ceramics
ceremonial complex
climate
Early Archaic
Eastern United States
environment
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excavations
farming
fauna
fishing
geology
habitats
hunting
Indigenous societies
material culture
Middle Archaic
Middle Woodland
migration
mounds
Native Americans
Paleoindians
plants
Pleistocene
pottery
projectile points
public archaeology
settlement
shell middens
shellfish
southeastern archaeology
subsistence
violence
warfare
water transportation
Woodland period
Product details
- ISBN 9780817355777
- Weight: 725g
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 2009
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The earliest recorded description of the Central Mississippi Valley and its inhabitants is contained within the DeSoto chronicles written after the conquistadors passed through the area between 1539 and 1543. In 1882 a field agent for the Bureau of American Ethnology conducted the first systematic archaeological survey of the region, an area that extends from near the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Arkansas River, bounded on the east by the Mississippi River and on the west by the Ozark Highlands and Grand Prairie. One hundred years later, the Morses produced this first comprehensive overview of all of the archaeological research conducted in the valley during the interim. It is a well-organized compendium, written with both the professional archaeologist and the layperson in mind, and is profusely illustrated with maps, charts, artifact photographs, and drawings. This volume was the first published history of the archaeology of the region and stands as the basic resource for that work today.
Dan F. Morse is a retired research archaeologist, Arkansas Archeological Survey. Phyllis A. Morse is an archaeologist and independent scholar.
