Ebook: Exploring Southeastern Archaeology

Foreword / Jeffrey P. Brain -- Introductory remarks / Evan Peacock and Patricia Galloway -- Archaeology on the national forests of north Mississippi : a brief retrospective / Evan Peacock -- Pimento cheese and bacon? : revisiting mounds in the Lower Mississippi Delta / Cliff Jenkins -- Early Holocene climate in the eastern United States : a view from Mississippi / Samuel O. Brookes and Melissa H. Twaroski -- Sam Brookes and prehistoric effigy beads of the Southeast / Jessica Crawford -- Archaic chert beads and craft specialization : application of an organization of technology model / Alison M. Hadley and Philip J. Carr -- From Missouri to Mississippi to Florida : some research on the distribution of Poverty Point objects / Christopher T. Hays, James B. Stoltman, and Richard A. Weinstein -- Artifact assemblages from two Early Woodland Tchula-period sites on the Holly Springs National Forest, north Mississippi / Evan Peacock -- The Slate Springs Mound, a Woodland-period platform mound in the North Central Hills of Mississippi / Keith A. Baca -- Mississippian-period occupations in the Ackerman Unit of the Tombigbee National Forest / Andrew M. Triplett -- Owl Creek, Thelma, and Bessemer Mounds : large peripheral Mississippian mound groups and bet-hedging / Janet Rafferty -- Plaquemine culture pottery from the Great Ravine at the Anna Site (22AD500), Adams County. Mississippi / Ian W. Brown -- Excavations at the South Thomas Street Site (22LE1002) : an early eighteenth-century hamlet located on the periphery of the major Chickasaw settlement in northeastern Mississippi / Jay K. Johnson and Edward R. Henry -- The symbiotic relationship between the national forests of Mississippi and the Civilian Conservation Corps : the early history of the Chickasawhay Ranger District / Maria Schleidt -- Logging out the Delta : from Mosquitoville to the Sardis & Delta Railroad / Mary Evelyn Starr -- Brookes@Forest : building an epistemic community for archaeological research-in-action / Patricia Galloway -- Appendix. Citation for USDA Forest Service National Heritage Award.;"This volume includes original scholarship on a wide array of current archaeological research across the South. One essay explores the effects of climate on early cultures in Mississippi. Contributors reveal the production and distribution of stone effigy beads, which were centered in southwest Mississippi some 5,000 years ago, and trace contact between different parts of the prehistoric Southeast as seen in the distribution of clay cooking balls. Researchers explore small, enigmatic sites in the hill country of northern Mississippi now marked by scatters of broken pottery and a large, seemingly isolated "platform" mound in Calhoun Country. Pieces describe a mound group in Chickasaw County built by early agriculturalists who subsequently abandoned the area and a similar prehistoric abandonment event in Winston and Choctaw Counties. A large pottery collection from the famous Anna Mounds site in Adams County, excavations at a Chickasaw Indian site in Lee Country, camps and works of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the pine hill country of southern Mississippi, and the history of logging in the Mississippi Delta all yield abundant, new understandings of the past. Overview papers include a retrospective on archaeology in the National Forest of north Mississippi, a new look at a number of mound sites in the lower Mississippi Delta, and a study of how communities of learning in field archaeology are built, with prominent archaeologist Samuel O. Brooks's achievements as a focal point. History buffs, artifact enthusiasts, students, and professionals all will find something of interest in this book, which opens new doors on the prehistory and history of Mississippi"--