LEADER 03655nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910454784103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8366-2 010 $a0-585-32387-9 035 $a(CKB)111004368626382 035 $a(EBL)547603 035 $a(OCoLC)648711520 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000200003 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11168903 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000200003 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10215541 035 $a(PQKB)11314604 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC547603 035 $a(OCoLC)45843125 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9147 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL547603 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10408274 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004368626382 100 $a19990211d1999 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aMeasuring the flow of time$b[electronic resource] $ethe works of James A. Ford, 1935-1941 /$fedited and with an introduction by Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman; foreword by Gordon R. Willey 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc1999 215 $a1 online resource (608 p.) 225 1 $aClassics in southeastern archaeology 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-0991-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 565-569) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $a9. 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 330 $a A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication This collection of Ford's works focuses on the development of ceramic chronology-a key tool in Americanist archaeology. When James Ford began archaeological fieldwork in 1927, scholars divided time simply into prehistory and history. Though certainly influenced by his colleagues, Ford devoted his life to establishing a chronology for prehistory based on ceramic types, and today he deserves credit for bringing chronological order to the vast archaeological record of the Mississippi Valley. This b 410 0$aClassics in southeastern archaeology. 606 $aAnthropologists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aArchaeologists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aIndians of North America$zLouisiana$xAntiquities 606 $aIndians of North America$zMississippi$xAntiquities 607 $aLouisiana$xAntiquities 607 $aMississippi$xAntiquities 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAnthropologists 615 0$aArchaeologists 615 0$aIndians of North America$xAntiquities. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xAntiquities. 676 $a973/.07/202 701 $aO'Brien$b Michael J$g(Michael John),$f1950-$0181861 701 $aLyman$b R. Lee$0907848 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454784103321 996 $aMeasuring the flow of time$92459631 997 $aUNINA