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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454784103321

Titolo

Measuring the flow of time [[electronic resource] ] : the works of James A. Ford, 1935-1941 / / edited and with an introduction by Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman; foreword by Gordon R. Willey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1999

ISBN

0-8173-8366-2

0-585-32387-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (608 p.)

Collana

Classics in southeastern archaeology

Altri autori (Persone)

O'BrienMichael J <1950-> (Michael John)

LymanR. Lee

Disciplina

973/.07/202

Soggetti

Anthropologists - United States

Archaeologists - United States

Indians of North America - Louisiana - Antiquities

Indians of North America - Mississippi - Antiquities

Electronic books.

Louisiana Antiquities

Mississippi Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 565-569) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; References; 1. From Excavations at a Prehistoric Indian Village Site in Mississippi; 2. An Introduction to Louisiana Archeology; 3. Outline of Louisiana and Mississippi Pottery Horizons; 4. Ceramic Decoration Sequence at an Old Indian Village Site near Sicily Island, Louisiana; 5. Analysis of Indian Village Site Collections from Louisiana and Mississippi; 6. Archaeological Methods Applicable to Louisiana; 7. The Indian Mounds of Iberville Parish; 8. Report of the Conference on Southeastern Pottery Typology

9. A Chronological Method Applicable to the Southeast10. From Crooks Site, a Marksville Period Burial Mound in La Salle Parish, Louisiana; 11. An Interpretation of the Prehistory of the Eastern United States; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication   This collection of Ford's works



focuses on the development of ceramic chronology-a key tool in Americanist archaeology.    When James Ford began archaeological fieldwork in 1927, scholars divided time simply into prehistory and history. Though certainly influenced by his colleagues, Ford devoted his life to establishing a chronology for prehistory based on ceramic types, and today he deserves credit for bringing chronological order to the vast archaeological record of the Mississippi Valley.     This b