TENNESSEE ARCHAEOLOGY Volume 9 Summer 2018 Number 2 EDITORIAL COORDINATORS Michael C. Moore Tennessee Division of Archaeology TENNESSEE ARCHAEOLOGY Kevin E. Smith Middle Tennessee State University VOLUME 9 Summer 2018 NUMBER 2 EDITORIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE 81 Editors Corner Paul Avery KEVIN E. SMITH AND MICHAEL C. MOORE Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. 87 Introduction to the Special Issue Jared Barrett J. SCOTT JONES TRC Inc. 89 Interpretation of the Structure and Variation of Middle Sierra Bow Cumberland Mississippian Stone-Box Cemeteries University of Tennessee J. SCOTT JONES Stephen Carmody Troy University 103 Return to the Great Mound Group: 2016 Investigations at Mound Bottom State Archaeological Area. Sarah Levithol Eckhardt AARON DETER-WOLF, SUNNY FLEMING, AND SARAH Tennessee Division of Archaeology LEVITHOL ECKHARDT Paul N. Eubanks 117 A Preliminary Assessment of Mississippian Middle Tennessee State University Settlement in the Little Harpeth River Watershed: The Hannah Guidry Inglehame Farm Site (40WM342) Revisited Tennessee Department of Transportation MICHAEL C. MOORE Phillip Hodge 135 The Copper Creek Site (40SU317): A Multicomponent Tennessee Department of Transportation Mortuary Site in Goodlettsville, Sumner County, Tennessee Kandi Hollenbach SARAH LEVITHOL ECKHARDT AND HANNAH GUIDRY University of Tennessee 156 Relationships and Trauma: Lived Perspectives at Ryan Parish Averbuch University of Memphis GIOVANNA M. VIDOLI AND HEATHER WORNE Tanya M. Peres Florida State University 170 Middle Cumberland Mississippian Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future Directions Paige Silcox KEVIN E. SMITH AND MICHAEL C. MOORE Tennessee Division of Archaeology RESEARCH REPORTS Tennessee Archaeology is published semi-annually in electronic print format 201 Five New Prehistoric Cave Art Sites in Tennessee under the auspices of the Tennessee 2005 Council for Professional Archaeology. JAN F. SIMEK, ALAN CRESSLER, JOSEPH C. DOUGLAS, STUART CARROLL, KEN OESER, Correspondence about manuscripts for ANNETTE OESER, AND AMY WALLACE the journal should be addressed to Michael C. Moore, Tennessee Division of Archaeology, Cole Building #3, 1216 Foster Avenue, Nashville TN 37243. The Tennessee Council for Professional Archaeology disclaims responsibility for statements, whether fact or of opinion, made by contributors. On the Cover: John Walthall and Charles H. McNutt with their Lifetime Achievement Awards, Southeastern Archaeological Conference, 2012 (Photo: Kevin E. Smith). EDITORS CORNER Kevin E. Smith and Michael C. Moore We are delighted to devote the second archaeologists to a multicomponent issue of Volume 9 of Tennessee Paleoindian and Early Archaic site on the Archaeology to a special issue on the banks of the Cumberland River that was Mississippian culture of the Middle well known to him -- a site that would be Cumberland Region – guest-edited by J. recorded as the “Johnson Site” Scott Jones. We thank Scott for his efforts (40DV400) in his honor (Broster et al. to bring several of the papers from his 1991; Broster and Barker 1992; Barker symposium together for this issue. In and Broster 1996). The Johnson site has addition, we include the second research since received significant national and report from the Cave Archaeology even international recognition as one of Research Team at the University of the most important Pleistocene and Early Tennessee on the cave and open-air rock Holocene sites in the eastern United art of Tennessee. Simek et al. (this issue) States – and one of a handful of potential includes an annotated version of their candidates for the elusive “Pre-Clovis” report presented at the 2006 Annual occupations of the region. By his request, Meeting on Current Research in Mr. Johnson was interred in Hill City Tennessee Archaeology. As always, we Cemetery in South Dakota – the heart of appreciate the contributions of the authors his beloved Black Hills. and extend our thanks to the reviewers Louis Carl Kuttruff (1944-23 Jul who help make this peer-reviewed e- 2017) of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, age 73, journal possible. passed away in 2017 after an We also take the opportunity to unsuccessful battle with cancer. A native recognize the passing of several valued of Louisiana, Carl received his BA degree contributors to Tennessee archaeology in Geography and Anthropology from since publication of our last issue. We Louisiana State University in 1965 and extend our condolences to their family, then continued on to received his MA friends, and colleagues. They will be (1970) and PhD in Anthropology (1974) missed. from Southern Illinois University, David Paul “Doc” Johnson (29 Mar Carbondale. 1958-2 Jan 2017) was employed as an Carl was profoundly influenced both archaeological field technician with the personally and professionally by Tennessee Division of Archaeology and attendance of the 1959 Boy Scout World DuVall & Associates, Inc. during the late Jamboree in the Philippine Islands – 1980s and early 1990s, although his followed by a round-the-world tour interest in “arrowheads” (particularly those including Corregidor, Angkor Wat, the Taj of the Paleoindian and Early Archaic eras) Mahal, Egyptian Pyramids, Greek and spanned a much longer part of his life. He Roman ruins, and the lava fields of was among the first partners of the Iceland. His archaeological fieldwork Tennessee Paleoindian Projectile Points spanned over 51 years in Alabama, and Site Survey Project after its creation Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, in 1988 by the Division of Archaeology. Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, New “Doc” brought the attention of York, North Carolina, Ohio, South 81 Tennessee Archaeology 9(2) Summer 2018 FIGURE 2. Carl Kuttruff (Courtesy, Guy Weaver) (O’Brien and Kuttruff 2015). Not long thereafter in 1975-1976, Carl would begin FIGURE 1. The first three regional his explorations of historic (military sites) archaeologists with the Division of archaeology with one of the largest field Archaeology. Left to right: Carl Kuttruff, projects of his career – excavations at John Broster, and Brian Butler (Courtesy, Fort Loudoun in Monroe County, a British Mack Prichard). colonial fort occupied from 1756-1760. Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, Many untold years of research and writing Oaxaca (Mexico), the Philippines, Wake later, that project would be published in Island, Kwajalein Atoll, and the Marshall his magnum opus (Kuttruff 2010). Carl’s Islands. tenure (1973-1989) was during a critical Carl’s archaeological career in period both of clarifying the official role of Tennessee began in 1973 when he was the Division of Archaeology and of hired as one of the first three regional beginning a nearly 50-year tradition of archaeologists with the Division of salvaging information from important Archaeology (along with John Broster and unprotected archaeological sites Brian Butler; Figure 1). Working in threatened by private development. The partnership with Michael J. O’Brien and number of “emergency” salvage projects Vanderbilt University in 1974 and 1975, he undertook is far too lengthy to recount Carl would tackle investigating the newly here, but as an example, his efforts to acquired Mound Bottom State save some information from the Brick Archaeological Area – one of the largest Church Pike Mounds (40DV39) -- one of Mississippian mound complexes in the the most significant early Mississippian interior southeastern United States mound complexes in the region – stands 82 Editors Corner out in our minds. Again, many years later, and art, he was a prolific author of more he would partner with the late Gary Barker than 75 publications on Cherokee and to publish the results of their Native American topics, museum studies, investigations at that important site and was the founding editor of the Journal (Barker and Kuttruff 2010). of Cherokee Studies in 1976. Among Carl’s many contributions as Dr. King’s distinguished career organizer of conferences and symposia spanned appointments throughout the over his career, one of his most significant United States, including Director of the in Tennessee was working with Robert C. Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Mainfort, Jr. and Mary Beth Trubitt to Cherokee, North Carolina; Assistant bring the first Southeastern Director of the George Gustav Heye Archaeological Conference to Nashville in Center (National Museum of the American 1986. This memorable conference Indian) in New York City, Executive included a reception at the Tennessee Director positions at the Thomas State Museum showcasing the recently Gilcrease Institute of American History opened permanent exhibition “First and Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Middle Tennesseans” featuring a significant part Oregon Historical Society in Warm of the Gates P. Thruston Collection and Springs, Oregon, the Cherokee National tours to Mound Bottom. When Carl’s History Society in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, spouse Jenna accepted a position at and the Southwest Museum in Los Louisiana State University in 1989, he left Angela. Most recently, he served as the Tennessee to return to more southern University of Tulsa’s Vice President for pastures and his birthplace in Baton Museum Affairs and Executive Director of Rouge. the Helmerich Center for American According to one of his former Research. Dr. King also taught at the students and long-time friends, during an University of Tennessee in Chattanooga evening discussion long ago, Carl and Knoxville, Cleveland State College, indicated that his tombstone might read Northeastern State University, and served “Here is