Shell Mounds in the Tennessee Valley
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: HSFA 1986.8.3
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
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content: 1 Film reel (23 minutes, black-and-white silent; 800 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1945
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Edited film sponsored by the National Research Council, University of Alabama, Works Progress Administration, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Film documents archaeological digging methods at the Pickwick Landing, a Tennessee shell mound site, and pre-TVA exploration of towns and sites along the Tennessee River prior to damming of the valley. Also included are burial excavations, explanations of archaeological techniques, as well as examination and reconstruction of artifacts and human skeletal remains at the Alabama Museum of Natural History.