Time's river
Subtitle: archaeological syntheses from the lower Mississippi River Valley
By: edited by Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock.
Contributors: Rafferty, Janet, 1947-; Peacock, Evan, 1961-
Publisher: University of Alabama Press; University Alabama Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
ISBN-13: 9780817354893; 9780817316143; 9780817381127
Subjects: Archaeology -- Mississippi River Valley; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mississippi River Valley; Prehistoric peoples -- Mississippi River Valley; Indians of North America -- Mississippi River Valley -- Antiquities; Mississippi River Valley -- Antiquities; Interstate 69 -- Antiquities; Mississippi River Valley -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-533) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Reconsidering the archaeology of the lower Mississippi River Valley / Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock; title: The Interstate 69 project in Mississippi : generation of an archaeological synthesis / John R. Underwood, James H. Turner, and Kevin L. Bruce; title: Archaeology in the lower Mississippi Valley / Robert C. Dunnell; title: Archaeological things : languages of observation / Robert C. Dunnell; title: Paleoenvironmental modeling in the lower Mississippi River Valley : past and future approaches / Evan Peacock; title: Settlement patterns, occupations, and field methods / Janet Rafferty; title: Prehistoric settlement in the lower Mississippi Valley : a critical review / Carl P. Lipo and Robert C. Dunnell; title: Absolute dating in the Mississippi Delta / James K. Feathers; title: Bioarchaeology in the Mississippi Delta / S. Homes Hogue; title: Through the lens of the lithic analyst : the organization of Mississippi Delta chipped-stone technologies / Philip J. Carr; title: Review of ceramic compositional studies from in and around the Mississippi Valley / Hector Neff; title: Ceramic petrography and the classification of Mississippi's archaeological pottery by fabric : a GIS approach / Michael L. Galaty; title: Faunal research in the Yazoo Basin and lower Mississippi Valley : setting parameters for future research in the I-69 corridor, Mississippi / H. Edwin Jackson; title: Paleoethnobotanical information and issues relevant to the I-69 overview process, northwest Mississippi / Gayle J. Fritz; title: Archaeological remote sensing research in the Yazoo Basin : a history and evaluation / Jay K. Johnson; title: Culture contact along the I-69 corridor : protohistoric and historic use of the northern Yazoo Basin, Mississippi / Ian W. Brown; title: Sad song in the Delta : the potential for historical archaeology in the I-69 corridor / Amy L. Young; title: Fording the river : concluding comments / Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock.