Measuring the flow of time
Subtitle: the works of James A. Ford, 1935-1941
By: edited and with an introduction by Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman ; foreword by Gordon R. Willey.
Contributors: O'Brien, Michael J. 1950-; Lyman, R. Lee.
Series: Classics in southeastern archaeology
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 582
Subjects: Ford, James Alfred, 1911-1968; Anthropologists -- United States -- Biography; Archaeologists -- United States -- Biography; Indians of North America -- Louisiana -- Antiquities; Indians of North America -- Mississippi -- Antiquities; Louisiana -- Antiquities; Mississippi -- Antiquities
Genres: Biography.
Description: "When James Ford began archaeological fieldwork in 1927, scholars divided time simply into prehistory and history. Although 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."--BOOK JACKET.

"This book collects Ford's seminal writings showing the importance of pottery styles in dating sites, population movements, and cultures. These works defined the development of ceramic chronology that culminated in the major volume Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947, which Ford wrote with Philip Phillips and James B. Griffin."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 565-569) and index.