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

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (608 p.)
• Disciplina: 973/.07/202
• Soggetto topico: Anthropologists - United States; Archaeologists - United States; Indians of North America - Louisiana - Antiquities; Indians of North America - Mississippi - Antiquities
• Soggetto geografico: Louisiana Antiquities; Mississippi Antiquities
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: O'BrienMichael J <1950-> (Michael John) LymanR. Lee
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Measuring the flow of time
• ISBN: 0-8173-8366-2; 0-585-32387-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454784103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Classics in southeastern archaeology.