Bottle Creek : a Pensacola culture site in South Alabama / / edited by Ian W. Brown ; foreword by David S. Brose ; with contributions by Penelope B. Drooker ... [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 976.1/21
• Soggetto topico: Mississippian culture - Alabama - Mound Island; Mississippian pottery - Alabama - Mound Island; Excavations (Archaeology) - Alabama - Mound Island
• Soggetto geografico: Bottle Creek Site (Ala.); Mound Island (Ala.) Antiquities
• Altri autori: BrownIan W DrookerPenelope B
• Note generali: "A Dan Josselyn memorial publication."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-260) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction to the Bottle Creek Site; 2. Out of the Moundville Shadow: The Origin and Evolution of Pensacola Culture; 3. A Proposed Construction Sequence of the Mound B Terrace at Bottle Creek; 4. Historic Aboriginal Reuse of a Mississippian Mound, Mound L at Bottle Creek; 5. Food Plant Remains from Excavations in Mounds A, B, C, D, and L at Bottle Creek; 6. The Use of Plants in Mound-Related Activities at Bottle Creek and Moundville; 7. Zooarchaeological Remains from Bottle Creek ; 8. A Functional Comparison of Pottery Vessel Shapes from Bottle Creek 9. The Bottle Creek Microlithic Industry; 10. Matting and Pliable Fabrics from Bottle Creek; 11. Water Travel and Mississippian Settlement at Bottle Creek; 12. Concluding Thoughts on Bottle Creek and Its Position in the Mississippian World; A. Archaeological Phases Represented at the Bottle Creek Site; B. Radiocarbon Dates Secured at the Bottle Creek Site; References Cited; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first comprehensive study and analysis of the most important Mississippian mound site on the north-central Gulf coast. Consisting of 18 earthen mounds and numerous additional habitation areas dating to A.D. 1250-1550, the Bottle Creek site was first professionally investigated in 1932 when David L. DeJarnette of the Alabama Museum of Natural History began work there to determine if the site had a cultural relationship with Moundville, connected to the north by a river system. Although partially mapped in the 1880's, Bottle Creek's location in the vast Mobile-Tensaw Delta of Baldwin
• Titolo autorizzato: Bottle Creek
• ISBN: 0-8173-8172-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824289203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II