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Phillips Philip <1900-1994.> |
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Archaeological survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947 [[electronic resource] /] / Philip Phillips, James A. Ford, and James B. Griffin ; edited and with an introduction by Stephen Williams |
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Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2003 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (626 p.) |
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Collana |
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Classics in southeastern archaeology |
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FordJames Alfred <1911-1968.> |
GriffinJames B <1905-1997.> (James Bennett) |
WilliamsStephen <1926-> |
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Soggetti |
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Indians of North America - Lower Mississippi River Valley - Antiquities |
Indian pottery - Lower Mississippi River Valley |
Mississippi River Valley Antiquities |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Peabody Museum, 1951, in series: Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University ; v. 25. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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section 1. The geographic setting -- section 2. The archaeological field work -- section 3. Classification of the pottery -- section 4. Distribution of some Mississippi period vessel shapes and features -- section 5. Seriation analysis of potter collections -- section 6. Stratigraphy -- section 7. Correlation of archaeological sequences with recent drainage history -- section 8. Analysis of occupation site plans -- section 9. Identification of sites from documentary source -- seciton 10. Summary and conclusions. |
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A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication. A classic work by three important scholars who document prehistoric human occupation along the lower reaches of the continent's largest river. The Lower Mississippi Survey was initiated in 1939 as a joint undertaking of three institutions: the School of Geology at Louisiana State University, the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, and the Peabody Museum at Harvard. Fieldwork began in 1940 but was halted during the war years. When fieldwork resumed in 1946, James Ford had joined the |
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