DeJarnette Excavation
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1986.8.4
name: label: Collection Creator
content: National Research Council (U.S.)
label: Collection Creator
content: United States. National Park Service
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content: Alabama Museum films
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (35 minutes, color silent; 1,200 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Footage of the archaeological excavations of David DeJarnette at a proposed roadway site in the Moundville State Park in central Alabama. Film documents excavation techniques including screening for artifacts, surveying, staking and digging of units. Also included is footage of the excavation and removal of several human skeletons and the washing and labeling of recovered artifacts. Documented excavations are located in several open fields and in a cave. The sites are thought to have been occupied by the Mississippian culture from AD 1200 to AD 1500 and are characterized by 20 platform mounds located in the general vicinity of the filmed excavations.