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Pierce Mounds Complex an Ancient Capital in Northwest Florida
Pierce Mounds Complex An Ancient Capital in Northwest Florida Nancy Marie White Department of Anthropology University of South Florida, Tampa [email protected] Final Report to George J. Mahr, Apalachicola, Florida December 2013 ii ABSTRACT The Pierce site (8Fr14), near the mouth of the Apalachicola River in Franklin County, northwest Florida, was a major prehistoric mound center during the late Early and Middle Woodland (about A.D. 200-700) and Mississippian (about A.D. 1000-1500) periods. People lived there probably continuously during at least the last 2000 years (until right before the European invasion of Florida in the sixteenth century) and took advantage of the strategic location commanding the river and bay, as well as the abundant terrestrial and aquatic resources. Besides constructing several mounds for burial of the dead and probably support of important structures, native peoples left long midden (refuse) ridges of shells, animal bones, artifacts and blackened sandy soils, which built up a large and very significant archaeological site. Early Europeans and Americans who settled in the town of Apalachicola recognized the archaeological importance of Pierce and collected artifacts. But since the site and its spectacular findings were published by C.B. Moore in 1902, much information has been lost or misunderstood. Recent investigations by the University of South Florida were commissioned by the property owner to research and evaluate the significance of the site. There is evidence for an Early Woodland (Deptford) occupation and mound building, possibly as early as A.D. 200. Seven of the mounds form an oval, with the Middle Woodland burial mounds on the west side. -
North Carolina Archaeology
North Carolina Archaeology Volume 65 2016 North Carolina Archaeology Volume 65 October 2016 CONTENTS Don’t Let Ethics Get in the Way of Doing What’s Right: Three Decades of Working with Collectors in North Carolina I. Randolph Daniel, Jr. ......................................................................................... 1 Mariners’ Maladies: Examining Medical Equipage from the Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton ........................................................................... 28 Archival Excavations from Dusty File Cabinets, Part I: Unpublished Artifact Pattern Data of Colonial Period Households, Dependency Buildings, and Public Structures from Colonial Brunswick Town Thomas E. Beaman, Jr. ...................................................................................... 53 Preface: Identifying and Defining North Carolina’s Archaeological Heritage through Remote Sensing and Geophysics John J. Mintz and Shawn M. Patch .................................................................... 90 The Role of GPR in Archaeology: A Beginning Not an End Charles R. Ewen ................................................................................................. 92 Three-dimensional Remote Sensing at House in the Horseshoe State Historic Site (31MR20), Moore County, North Carolina Stacy Curry and Doug Gallaway ..................................................................... 100 An Overview of Geophysical Surveys and Ground-truthing Excavations at House in the Horseshoe (31MR20), Moore County, North -
Parasites and Skeletal Indicators of Anemia in the Eastern United States
Parasites and skeletal indicators of anemia in the eastern United States Item Type Thesis Authors Dinneen, Erin Download date 06/10/2021 02:28:21 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/4801 ii PARASITES AND SKELETAL INDICATORS OF ANEMIA IN THE EASTERN UNITED STATES A THESIS Presented to the Faculty of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS By Erin E. Dinneen, B.S. Fairbanks, Alaska Title Page December 2014 iii Abstract The goal of this research is to examine the influence of parasitic infection and diet in the etiology of anemia in prehistoric human populations of the eastern United States. Prehistorically, anemia is often attributed to a nutrient-deficient diet, while parasite infection is discussed as a secondary cause if at all. However, parasite infection is a leading cause of anemia in the developing world today. Modern epidemiological studies have demonstrated that parasites thrive or perish under particular environmental conditions, and risk for parasite infection can be predicted based on environment using GIS. Here I apply this method to see whether environmental conditions, acting as a proxy for parasite infection risk, can predict prehistoric skeletal lesion rates for porotic hyperostosis and cribra orbitalia, lesions thought to reflect acquired anemia. Rates of porotic hyperostosis and cribra orbitalia in the skeletal remains of children and adults were collected from published data for 22 sites in the eastern United States. GIS was used to gather comparable environmental data. Soil drainage, elevation, precipitation, temperature and the surface area of bodies of water were recorded within a 15 km radius of each site. -
Volume 8 Summer 2016 Numbers 1-2
TENNESSEE ARCHAEOLOGY Volume 8 Summer 2016 Numbers 1-2 EDITORIAL COORDINATORS Michael C. Moore Tennessee Division of Archaeology TENNESSEE ARCHAEOLOGY Kevin E. Smith Middle Tennessee State University VOLUME 8 Summer 2016 NUMBERS 1-2 EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE 1 EDITORS CORNER Paul Avery Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. 4 The Old Man and the Pleistocene: John Broster and Paleoindian Period Archaeology in the Mid-South – Jared Barrett Introduction to the Special Volume TRC Inc. D. SHANE MILLER AND JESSE W. TUNE Sierra Bow 8 A Retrospective Peek at the Career of John Bertram University of Tennessee Broster Andrew Brown MICHAEL C. MOORE, KEVIN E. SMITH, AARON DETER- University of North Texas WOLF, AND DAVID E. STUART Hannah Guidry 24 The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Record in TRC Inc. Tennessee: A Review of the Tennessee Fluted Point Survey Michaelyn Harle JESSE W. TUNE Tennessee Valley Authority 42 Quantifying Regional Variation in Terminal Phillip Hodge Pleistocene Assemblages from the Lower Tennessee Tennessee Department of Transportation River Valley Using Chert Sourcing RYAN M. PARISH AND ADAM FINN Shannon Hodge Middle Tennessee State University 59 A Preliminary Report on the Late Pleistocene and Sarah Levithol Early Holocene Archaeology of Rock Creek Mortar Tennessee Division of Archaeology Shelter, Upper Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee JAY FRANKLIN, MAUREEN HAYS, FRÉDÉRIC SURMELY, Ryan Parish ILARIA PATANIA, LUCINDA LANGSTON, AND TRAVIS BOW University of Memphis 78 Colonization after Clovis: Using the Ideal Free Tanya M. Peres Distribution to Interpret the Distribution of Late Florida State University Pleistocene and Early Holocene Archaeological Sites in the Duck River Valley, Tennessee Jesse Tune D. SHANE MILLER AND STEPHEN B. -
Archaeological Investigations in the Obion River Drainage: the West
.~~- -~.- .~---~~~~~~~- ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS IN THE OBION RIVER DRAINAGE: THE WEST TENNESSEE TRIBUTARIES PROJECT by Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. with contributions by Jamie C. Brandon Emanuel Breitburg Shawn Chapman Mary L. Kwas William L. Lawrence June E. Mirecki Andrea B. Shea Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Division of Archaeology, Research Series No. 10 1994 . ~4~\·JRobert C. Mainfort, . Principal Investigator ii Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Division of Archaeology, Research Series No. 10 Copyright © 1994 - Tennessee Division of Archaeology TENNESSEE DEPARTrvIENT OF ENVIRONrvIENT AND CONSERVATION, DIVISION OF ARCHAEOLOGY, RESEARCH SERIES publications are isssued at irregular intervals. Individual volumes are produced by staff members and other qualified individuals in order to promote the exchange of scholarly information concerning the history and prehistory of the State of Tennessee. Copies of all publications in the series may be obtained from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, 401 Church Street, 13th Floor, Nashville, Tennessee 37243, (615)532-1516. Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's policy of non-discrimination, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation does not discriminate on the basis of race sex, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, or military service in its policies, or in the admission or access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs, -services or activities. Equal Employment Opportunityl Affirmative Action!ADA inquiries or complaints should be directed to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, EEOlAAIADA Coordinator, 401 Church Street, 21st Floor, Nashville, TN 37243, (615)532-0103. Hearing impaired callers may use the Tennessee Relay Service (1-800-848-0298). Tennessee Department of Environment and Con servation, Authorization No. -
How to Build a Mississippian House: a Study of Domestic Architecture in West – Central Alabama
HOW TO BUILD A MISSISSIPPIAN HOUSE: A STUDY OF DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE IN WEST – CENTRAL ALABAMA by CAMERON HAWKINS LACQUEMENT A THESIS Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Anthropology in the Graduate School of the University of Alabama TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA 2004 Submitted by Cameron H. Lacquement in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts specializing in Anthropology. Accepted on behalf of the Faculty of the Graduate School by the thesis committee: _________________________________ Keith P. Jacobi, Ph.D. ____________________________ Richard A. Krause, Ph.D. ____________________________ Kathryn S. Oths, Ph.D. ____________________________ Richard R. Polhemus, Ph.D. ____________________________ Vernon J. Knight, Jr., Ph.D. Chairperson ________________________ Date ____________________________ Michael D. Murphy, Ph.D. Department Chairperson ________________________ Date ____________________________ Ronald W. Rogers, Ph.D. Dean of the Graduate School ii Acknowledgments I am indebted to a number of individuals for their assistance in completing this thesis project. I would like to extend special gratitude to Vernon J. Knight Jr. for his support and guidance throughout this project. Without him, it would not have been possible. I also would like to thank the members of my thesis committee, Keith P. Jacobi, Richard A. Krause, Kathryn S. Oths, and Richard R. Polhemus for their encouragement and direction during my project. I am also indebted to Kenneth J. Fridley, Professor and Chair of the University of Alabama’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, who was not an official member of my committee, yet treated me as one of his own students. -
Idealized Lithic Trajectory 221T563 Trajectory Spatial Interpretation Representation
Archaeological Report No. 17 THE TCHULA PERIOD IN THE MID-SOUTH AND LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Proceedings of the 1982 Mid-South Archaeological Conference Edited by David H. Dye Department of Anthropology Memphis State University and Ronald C. Brister Chief, Curator of Collections Memphis Museums Mississippi Department of Archives and History Jackson, Mississippi 1986 MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY Archaeological Report No. 17 Patricia Kay Galloway Series Editor Elbert R. Hilliard Director Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 86-620005 ISBN: 0-938896-48-2 © Copyright 1986 Mississippi Department of Archives and History This volume is dedicated to Philip Phillips, James A. Ford, and James B. Griffin TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Acknowledgments • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• x Introduction David H. Dye ••••••• 1 The Second Mid-South Archaeological Conference Dan F. Morse 9 Chapter 1 Tchula Period Ceramics in the Upper Sunflower Region Samuel O. Brookes and Cheryl Taylor ••••••• 23 2 Alexander, Tchefuncte, and Black Sand: An Early Gulf Tradition in the Mississippi Valley David H. Dye and Jerry R. Galm •• 28 3 The Tchula Period in the Mississippi Valley James B. Griffin 40 4 The Wheeler Series: Space, Time, and External Relationships Ned J. Jenkins 43 5 Tchula/Miller I: A Perspective from Pinson Mounds Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. 52 6 Comment on Geomorphological Implications on the Development of the Late Tchula/Early Marksville Settlement Pattern in the Upper Yazoo Basin, Mississippi Richard A. Marshall ••• 63 7 McCarty (3-Po-467): A Tchula period site near Marked Tree, Arkansas Dan F. Morse . 70 v Chapter Page 8 An Assessment of Archaeological Data for the Tchula Period in Southeastern Arkansas Martha Ann Rolingson and Marvin D. -
The Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and History Bibliography of the Caddo Indian Peoples of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas
Volume 2021 Article 1 2021 The Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and History Bibliography of the Caddo Indian Peoples of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas Timothy K. Perttula None Duncan McKinnon Scott Hammerstedt University of Oklahoma Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita Part of the American Material Culture Commons, Archaeological Anthropology Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Other American Studies Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, and the United States History Commons Tell us how this article helped you. Cite this Record Perttula, Timothy K.; McKinnon, Duncan; and Hammerstedt, Scott (2021) "The Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and History Bibliography of the Caddo Indian Peoples of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas," Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: Vol. 2021, Article 1. ISSN: 2475-9333 Available at: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol2021/iss1/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Regional Heritage Research at SFA ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State by an authorized editor of SFA ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and History Bibliography of the Caddo Indian Peoples of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. This article is available in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol2021/iss1/1 1 The Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and History Bibliography of the Caddo Indian Peoples of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas Compiled by Timothy K. -
The Archaeological Investigation of Walter C. Pierce Community Park and Vicinity, 2005-2012: Report to the Public, May 2013
The Archaeological Investigation of Walter C. Pierce Community Park and Vicinity, 2005-2012: Report to the Public, May 2013 Mark Mack, Principal Investigator, Howard University Mary Belcher, Independent Historian DEDICATION This report is dedicated to Mark Mack, the leader of the Walter Pierce Park Archaeology Project from 2005 to 2012; to the men, women and children whose remains were buried in the cemeteries at Walter Pierce Park; to the descendants of those buried; and to others whose sense of kinship to those buried endures. SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS: Justin Dunnavant Shayla Monroe Eleanor King Barbara Bates Jen Muller Rachel Watkins ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES USED IN THIS INVESTIGATION: National Archives and Records Administration Howard University Founders Library and Moorland-Spingarn Research Center District of Columbia Archives Friends (Quakers) Meeting of Washington Files Smithsonian Institution Archives Family Research Center, Church of Latter Day Saints, Kensington, Maryland Library of Congress Martin Luther King Library Washingtoniana Room Cleveland Park Public Library Historical Society of Washington, D.C. Massachusetts Historical Society on-line Diaries of John Quincy Adams Sandy Spring, Maryland, Museum Library Genealogybank.com (on-line archives) Ancestry.com (on-line archives) Fold3.com (on-line archives) Accessiblearchives.com (on-line archives) Heritage Quest (on-line archives) THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION OF WALTER C. PIERCE COMMUNITY PARK AND VICINITY, 2005-2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ………………………………………………………………………... 1 Location and Condition of the Walter Pierce Park Site …………….. …………… 1 Research Design ………………………………………………………………….. 5 THE HISTORY OF THE SITE The Quaker Burying Ground Is Established, 1807 ……………………………………….. 7 Use and Ownership of the Land Surrounding the Quaker Cemetery, 1807-1870 … 8 1809-1823: Roger and George Johnson and the Columbia Mills…………….. -
Hunter-Gatherers in Transition: Late Paleoindian and Early Archaic Adaptations in Tennessee
HUNTER-GATHERERS IN TRANSITION: LATE PALEOINDIAN AND EARLY ARCHAIC ADAPTATIONS IN TENNESSEE Katherine E. McMillan, D. Shane Miller, Juliette Vogel, and Jonathan Baker INTRODUCTION The late Pleistocene to early Holocene transition in North America marks a period of rapid and often dramatic climatic and environmental changes that exerted a significant impact on the adaptive strategies of human populations living at this time of transition. These shifts included changes in climatic conditions (temperature and rainfall), biotic communities (megafaunal extinctions, vegetation changes, movement of species into new latitudes and elevations), and landscape changes (e.g. stabilizing waterways). As biotic community structures changed, human populations would have been forced to adapt their cultural systems to accommodate for these shifts. This chapter considers the cultural changes associated with this period of environmental transition in Tennessee. The Pleistocene-Holocene boundary encompasses the cultural periods labeled as the Late Paleoindian (ca. 12, 900 – 11,450 cal. B.P. / 10,800 – 10,000 rcbp; Anderson 2001) and Early Archaic (ca. 11,450 – 8,900 cal. B.P. / 10,000 – 8,000 rcbp; Anderson 2001). In Tennessee, the Late Paleoindian is identified by the presence of Dalton projectile points. The Early Archaic includes Early Side Notched (e.g. Big Sandy), Corner Notched (Kirk and Palmer) and Bifurcated Base (LeCroy, St. Albans, MacCorkle and Kanawha) projectile point types. These characteristic projectile point styles will be discussed below. -
Chapter 4. NORTHWEST FLORIDA, 2500 B.P.-A.D. 1000 the Cultures Of
Chapter 4. NORTHWEST FLORIDA, 2500 B.P.-A.D. 1000 The cultures of northwest Florida during the Woodland period are known as Deptford (2500 B.P.-A.D. 100), Santa Rosa (A.D. 100-300), Swift Creek (A.D. 100-300), and Weeden Island (A.D. 300-900). As elsewhere in the Southeast, these post-Archaic cultures are characterized by the appearance of elaborate ceremonial complexes, mound burial, permanent settlements, population growth, increasing reliance on cultigens, and increasing sociopolitical complexity. The Setting Northwest Florida consists of the sixteen counties west of the Aucilla River and includes two distinct physiographic regions: the coastal lowland zone and the interior uplands. The coast is dominated by open beaches with dune ridges backed by lagoons. The low numbers of older reported archaeological sites on the coast, in contrast to the many more recent sites, may be in part related to the rise in sea level that probably inundated many sites. It is estimated that sea level on the Gulf coast of northern Peninsular Florida has risen two meters over the last 2000 years. The upland areas in northwest Florida are drained by a number of rivers, the largest of which are the Apalachicola and the Escambia. Most reported Woodland period sites in northwest Florida are associated with riverine and coastal environments, while inland non-riverine areas were thought to be virtually barren of Woodland period occupation (an exception is the Torreya Ravines region). Recent cultural resource management (CRM) surveys in the Apalachicola National Forest have demonstrated that resources associated with the inland pine forests supplemented the subsistence needs of populations in the river valleys to varying degrees through time (Forney 1985; White 1981). -
September 2016 Caddo Biblio.Pdf
1 The Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and History of the Caddo Indian Peoples of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas Compiled by Timothy K. Perttula September 2016 Edition 2 Cover art: Foster Trailed-Incised, var. Moore jar from the Clements site (41CS25), in the collections of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments 4 Introduction, by Timothy K. Perttula 5 I, Caddo Archaeology and Bioarchaeology 8 II, Caddo Ethnohistory & Ethnography 317 III, Caddo History 334 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank Ann M. Early, Lois E. Albert, Jeffrey S. Girard, Robert L. Brooks, Scott W. Hammerstedt, Shawn Marceaux, Duncan McKinnon, Robert Z. Selden, Jr., Waldo Troell, Mary Beth Trubitt, and Mark Walters for their help with previous compilations of the Caddo bibliography. W. W. Crook, III, Chris Lintz, Juliana Barr, and John Samuelsen have also provided useful suggestions and bibliographic additions. For the present edition, Christopher Goodmaster and Mary Beth Trubitt provided additional references. 5 INTRODUCTION Timothy K. Perttula This Bibliography, April 2016 edition, is the latest and most comprehensive version of published sources concerning the archaeology, bioarchaeology, ethnography, ethnography, and history of the Caddo Indian peoples of the Trans-Mississippi South. Two early editions were published by the Arkansas Archeological Survey (Perttula et al. 1999, 2006), while a third edition (Perttula et al. 2011) was posted on the Caddo Conference Organization (www.caddoconference.org) website. A fourth edition was published by the Friends of Northeast Texas Archaeology (Perttula et al. 2013), and a fifth and now hopelessly outdated edition was published by the Journal of Texas Archeology and History in 2014.