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Mississippi Archaeology (2005)
The Arkansas Archeologist (2005)
The Missouri
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Bulletin of the
Texas Archaeological (and Paleontological) Society
Bulletin of the
Oklahoma Anthropological Society
Journal of Alabama
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Anthropology (discontinued)
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Midcontinental
Journal of Archaeology
American Antiquity
American
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UNIVERSITY PRESSES
SELECT ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MISSISSIPPI
ARCHAEOLOGY: LATE PREHISTORY, THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY, AND HISTORIC TRIBES.
Many reports on Archaic sites, upland Woodland
sites, the Gulf Coast and Piney Woods and Anglo/Afro-American archaeology are
not included.
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15 (1980) J. Ford, "Alas, Poor Womak!"
22-Ya-500 was a early Middle Woodland site in Yalobusha County in north
central Mississippi. Ford discusses the Twin lakes phase as it relates to Delta
and Tombigbee sequences.
J.V. Frank, "The Rice Site: A Natchez Indian Cemetery." This
brief report discusses the salvage of five colonial Natchez graves. Two chunky
stones, some 20,000 glass beads along with a few copper beads and tinkling
cones, a brass bell and an iron ax were recovered, along with 24 vessels (some
shown in a plate). Ceramics include Fatherland Incised, Maddox Engraved, Leland
Incised and Addis Plain.
Note: This volume includes a bibliography of Mississippi Archaeology up
to 1980.
16 (1981) V.P. Steponaitis,
"Plaquemine Ceramic Chronology in the Natchez Region." Vessel
forms and types and varieties are described for the Anna (1200-1350), Foster
(1350-1500), Emerald (1500-1682) and Natchez (1682-1729) phases.
M.T. Smith, "Sixteenth Century Spanish Beads." Glass beads used
in 16th c. trade in the Southeast are briefly described; this material was later
incorporated in Smith's published dissertation.
S.O. Brookes and T.D. Potts, "The Bobo Site." Site 22-Co-535,
on the Sunflower River in Coahoma County was the subject of limited and hasty
salvage excavations during its destruction. A mound, radiocarbon dates, and
Marksville and early Mississippian features were recorded, including thatched
wall-trench houses and corn.
J.T. Lauro, "The Early Archaic Hebe Plantation Site in the Central Yazoo
Basin: Implications of the Geological Context." Recognition of the
Pleistocene date of braided stream surfaces caused survey in these areas to be
focused on early sites. Survey for the USDA Soil Conservation Service resulted
in the recording of 157 sites. 22-Ws-760, in the Bouge Phalia backswamp, has a
Dalton component. Testing indicates that the site is significant.
K. Yarborough, "A Preliminary Report of the Hebe Plantation Site:
Chronology and Function." Lithic materials are described and hypotheses
for future testing are presented.
17 (1982) J.M. Connaway, "Wood
Identified from Mississippi Period Houses in the Northern Yazoo Basin."
Identified posts and rafters from Bonds (22-Tu-530), Flowers #3 (22-Tu-518),
Wilsford (22-Co-516), Hays (22-Co-612), I.C. Village (22-Co-672) and Powell
Bayou (22-Su-516) include Taxodium (cypress), Carya (pecan-hickories), Quercus
(white and red oaks), Fraxinus (ash), and Ulmus (elms) species.
M.E. Starr, "The Stone Mound Place (22-Qu-538)." This brief
note describes and illustrates a sequence of three rectangular wall trench
houses uncovered by land-leveling on a bayou bank my family farmed at the time.
The identification of fiber-tempered pottery is doubtful; the houses probably
dated to the Late Woodland period based on the presence of grog tempered pottery
and stemmed projectile point/knives.
S.O. McGahey, "The Manufacture of Bone Fishhooks with Stone Tools."
Experimentally produced replicas of an unusual prehistoric artifact form, the
deer phalange fishhook.
S.O. Brookes, "Everyman's Guide to Projectile Points, Part III."
A relative projectile point chronology chart and a discussion of the differences
between Calf Creek (resharpened Smith points) and the Delta and Bluffs Shumla
type.
J.D. Stubbs, "A Preliminary Classification of Chickasaw Pottery." Stubbs
undertook survey in the Tupelo area to document the important protohistoric and
historic occupation of the region; this note refines Jennings' 1940s ceramic
typology and offers new types that did not gain wide acceptance. Chickasaw
pottery can be sand, grog or fossil shell tempered, and can have plain,
roughened, incised, cordmarked or burnished surfaces.
18 (1983) I.W. Brown, "Plaquemine
Culture Houses in the Natchez Bluffs Region, Mississippi: Excavations at the
Lookout Site." Large singly-set post circular structures as well as
rectangular wall-trench houses are documented, along with a discussion of
ceramic and lithic artifacts; this formed part of the data for later synthetic
works on Plaquemine/Natchezan architecture.
R. Ward, "English Earthenwares Associated with Early 19th Century
Choctaw Sites." Three ca. 1830 Choctaw sites in Lowndes County,
east-central Mississippi, were collected and typical English pottery of the
period is described in detail.
J.K. Johnson, A. Robbins, A. Shea, "Prehistoric Subsistence in the
Natchez Bluffs, Jefferson County, Mississippi." University of
Mississippi work at Gordon Mounds and Mud Island Creek yielded plant and animal
remains. Plants indicate oak-hickory uplands and cypress-gum floodplain swamps.
Historic descriptions of Natchez cultivation are included. Deer, bear, rabbit,
turkey, wood duck, gar, bass and snails were also recovered.
G. Lehmann, "Archaeological Survey of Whittens Creek in Natchez State
Park." Site descriptions and artifact tabulations from 17 sites,
including a discussion of lithics recovered. Besides some evidence of Late
Archaic occupation, late prehistoric Plaquemine sites were well-represented, and
this cluster of Anna phase sites (AD 1200-1350) was interpreted as a dispersed
village.
J.M. Connaway and S. McGahey, "The Dam Site (22-Ad-734), Adams County,
Mississippi." One of Lehmann's sites was tested. The work indicates
that this late prehistoric site on Whittens Creek is poorly preserved, and that
dark soils are a natural soil horizon rather than a midden. Most occupation
appears to have occurred during the Anna phase, supporting Lehmann's conclusions
and enlarging artifact samples.
J.A. Voss and J.H. Blitz, "An Archaeological Survey in the Choctaw
Homeland." The University of Southern Mississippi conducted a
multi-year effort to study protohistoric and historic Choctaw settlement; this
report describes samples drawn from Kemper County. This brief initial report
includes some literature review, the geographic stratification scheme, survey
methods, brief summary concerning the 49 sites found (37 with Choctaw components
on small, thin sites) and an introduction to Choctaw ceramics.
19 (1984) J.F. Barnett, "A New
Building Location at the Fatherland Site (The Grand Village of the
Natchez)." Postholes and a floor from a portion of a structure were
uncovered by drainage work at this state park. Erosion resulting from historic
cultivation of loess soils has deeply buried many features at this colonial
site.
K. Yarbrough, "Archaeological Investigations Sponsored by the Corps of
Engineers, Vicksburg District." Legislation governing Corps-sponsored
research is detailed and a bibliography of CRM reports from the 1970s and early
1980s is provided.
W.J. Collins, "Observations on Thermal Treatment of Citronelle Gravels
from Louisiana and Mississippi:An Archaeological Assessment." Plio-Pleistocene
gravels of the Mississippi embayment were the main stone tool resource for the
lower Mississippi valley. The material is highly variable rounded pebbles. Much
of the material responds positively to heat treatment at about 400 degrees C.
Reddish color changes and glossy surfaces typically accompany improved
knappability.
J.K. Johnson, "Prehistoric Settlement in the Upper Yocona Drainage,
North Central Mississippi." The Yocona is one of the main streams
entering the Yazoo Basin from the loess and central hills. 18 sites producing
613 artifacts were visited. In this limited survey, no sites with shell tempered
pottery where found. Most ceramics were sand or grog tempered, with greater
affinities with the Yazoo typology than that for the Tombigbee. The most common
lithic material was Ft. Payne (half of all stone artifacts, source 130 km
distance, present as retouch debitage and expended bifaces), followed by the
more local Citronelle gravel (40%, fuller range of the production trajectory
present), Kosiusko quartzite and ferruginous sandstone.
J. Connaway, "An Engraved Bottle from the Humber Site, Northern Yazoo
Basin, Mississippi." This large protohistoric village in Coahoma County
has produced huge numbers of complete vessels from graves that are often
secondary bone bundles. Connaway describes one that is an unusually pictographic
style of the Walls type. It shows a head with "southern Cult" motifs
such as forelock bead and forked eye surround, and probably ear spool or pin and
large shell bead necklace.
R. Ward, "19th Century Choctaw Indian Reservation Sites in Lowndes
County, Mississippi." Ward uses 1832 land survey data to locate the
reservations of Hotana and Yokatubbee. Surface collections from these northern,
post-Removal Choctaw sites produced native and English pottery, beads and other
glass, metal, arrow points and gunflints.
J.P. Brain, "The De Soto Entrada into the Lower Mississippi
Valley." Brain argues from historic Spanish narratives and finds of
then undatable brass trade bells that the DeSoto entrada's Province of Quizquiz
was in Coahoma County, Mississippi.
P. Galloway, "Technical Origins for Chichachae Combed Ceramics: An
Ethnohistorical Hypothesis." Galloway proposes that the characteristic
colonial and early statehood Choctaw pottery treatment was created with
fragments of French boxwood combs. Example of pottery and the combs are
illustrated.
20 (1995) R.A. Weinstein, "Some New
Thoughts on the DeSoto Expedition through Western Mississippi." The
accounts of the 16th century entrada are compared for geographic clues and a
site found during CRM survey, the Sunflower landing Mound, is proposed as the
site of the expedition's crossing of the Mississippi. (Weinstein later
recanted.)
J.Connaway, "An Unusual Engraved Vessel Fragment from 11-Co-511."
Fragments of a shallow, pedastled bowl with curvilinear zoned cross-hatch
engraving are classified as Walls Engraved, although they have affinities with
both Caddoan/Natchezan Maddox Engraved and Moundville Engraved.
J.R. Atkinson, "A Surface Collection from the Chickasaw Agency Site,
22-Cs-521, on the Natchez Trace in Chickasaw County, Mississippi." A
large collection included many ca. 1800-1825 English pottery types, many metal
tools, bottle glass, gunflints, architectural remains (brick and pane glass),
and Choctaw (Chickachae Combed) and possible Creek corn-cob roughened sherds,
but no types typical of the main concentration of Chickasaw sites to the north.
A.F. Ramenofsky, "The Introduction of European Disease and Aboriginal
Population Collapse." This is an early version of Ramenofsky's work on
the native population collapse in the face of smallpox and other epidemic Old
World diseases, using lower Mississippi, upper Missouri and New York cases.
L.R. Perkins, "Experiments in Heat-Treating West-Central Mississippi
Chert." Materials from various south Mississippi Creeks were subjected
to heating in a temperature-controlled kiln and color and luster changes
recorded for 250-500 degrees F, with 500 degrees being the point at which
failure (fracturing) begins. Samples are well documented.
J.R. Atkinson, "The Akia and Ogoula Tchetoka Chickasaw Village Locations
in 1736 During the French-Chickasaw War." 18th c. maps drawn around the
time of significant defeats for French attempts to 'punish' the Chickasaw, old
Natchez Trace archaeological excavations and modern survey data are compared and
proposed village names for known sites are proposed.
21 (1986) J.K. Johnson, "Rocks, River
Channels and Prehistory on the Lower Yalobusha." Several important
sites are found in Carroll County where the Yalobusha enters the Delta to join
the Tallahatchie. There have been geomorphic studies of the region, and Johnson
uses his usual lithic debitage classification as well as Woodland and
Mississippian ceramics to examine chronological models for the development of
the floodplain and its occupation.
J.A. Voss and C.B. Mann, "Stylistic Variation in Historic Choctaw
Ceramics." Line spacing of incised and combed pottery from the Neshoba
and Kemper county historic homeland is examined. Incised motifs have a much
wider standard deviation in line spacing. Spacing in the two types overlaps, but
combing typically has very closely spaced lines. Galloway's hypothesis that
French trade boxwood combs may have been used is supported.
S. McGahey, "A Compendium of Mississippi Dugout Canoes Recorded Since
1974." Four were known before 1974, late prehistoric examples from the
Tombigbee and Homochitto ('Big Red') and three historic examples from the Gulf
Coast. Eight examples are discussed in detail, with scale drawings. Prehistoric
examples are generally cypress with evidence of burning and generally have end
platforms with mooring holes. Dugouts continued in use in the 19th and early
20th century. Historic canoes tend to have tapered ends and evidence of the use
of metal adzes and drills as well as fire, with small ones being oval but the
11m long tupelo gum specimen from the Tallahatchie River, allegedly a
whiskey-runner's canoe, is proportionately narrow.
J.R. Atkinson, "The Location of the Nineteenth Century Choctaw Village
of Wholkey in Chickasaw County, Mississippi." This Chickasaw village,
origin of the modern town Houlka, may have been at the Middle Woodland Thelma
mound group.
J.F. Barnett, "The Play Site (22-Ad-812): A Natchez Phase Burial in
Natchez, Mississippi." Children playing on a cutbank found the grave of
a young man buried shortly before the French-Natchez war. His grave was
accompanied with ca. 1700-1730 glass beads and Fatherland Incised bowls. As at
other sites in the region, it was deeply buried by historic loess colluvium.
R. Ward, "The Tombigbee Crossing of the De Soto Expedition." More
on the endless speculation about the entrada's route across our state, based on
maps and this attorney's local knowledge.
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24 (1989) J. Ford, "Time and Temper
Meets Trend and Tradition." North Central Hills archaeology is caught
between the Delta and Tombigbee sequences. Woodland period ceramic surface
finishes and tempers varied independently of each other in the various regions.
R. Stallings, "Factors in Interpreting the Prehistoric Use of the
Citronelle Gravels in Mississippi." These typically tan to grey gravels
occur across a wide area of the Mid-South. These are the commonest material for
stone tools used in the Yazoo Basin throughout prehistory. Macroscopic
characteristics of samples from Long Creek, Panola County, Mississippi are
examined.
R.A. Krause, "The Archaic Stage and the Emergence of Hopewellian
Ceremonialism in the Southeastern United States." This general work
discusses the social theory behind rising complexity from labor and wealth spent
on mounds and other mortuary rituals. Archaic sites such as Poverty Point set
the stage for more complex behavior in the Woodland period.
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28 (1993) C. Jenkins, "The Use of
Vertebrate Fauna in the Subsistence System During the Transition from Late
Woodland to Mature Mississippian: The Tibbee Creek Site (22-Lo-600), Lowndes
County, Mississippi." This important site was the subject of Tenn-Tom
Waterway salvage excavations. Jenkins proposes that the Miller I-II-III-to
Mississippian transition was accompanied by a shift from focal to diffuse faunal
selection as corn agriculture was adopted (well-established agriculture by AD
1250). The deer-focused hunting of early settled life gave way to a broader
range of protein resources, including small mammals like raccoon, squirrel,
rabbit; fish; reptiles like turtles; turkey and mussels. This shift is
significant but not extreme; deer remained the main hunted animal.
S.O. McGahey, "Mississippi Paleoindian, Early Archaic Survey." Early
lithics (ca. 12,000-8,000 BP) have been McGahey's research focus and this paper
illustrates many early points as well as tools such as end and side scrapers,
adzes and stemmed scrapers. Most of these are surface finds reported by artifact
collectors.
29 (1994) J.L. Cotter,
"Archaeological Memoir of the Natchez Trace." Cotter directed
investigations along the National Park Service's Natchez Trace Parkway in the
1940s. Post-retirement, he considers the many social changes in the state since
that time (his laborers were mostly African-American) as well as early research
at such important Mississippian and Plaquemine sites as Emerald Mound, Anna
Mounds, Gordon.
D.G. Hunter, J.T. Kuttruff, and M.H. Manhien, "The Mound at Phillip
Nick's Place (16-Av-4) Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana." This article
reviews and updates old data from the Louisiana prairies and extensively
describes European trade goods (beads, pipes, gunflints, cloth...) from apparent
immigrant Choctaw graves placed in a Woodland period earthwork.
K. Styer, "Testing the Weinstein Hypothesis: An Evaluation of Three
Potential DeSoto Contact Sites in Northeast Mississippi." This article
summarizes a University of Mississippi MA thesis. Examination of collections
from late prehistoric/protohistoric Sunflower Landing (22-Co-713), Alligator
(22-Bo-500) and Oliver (22-Co-503) mound groups, using Brain's proposed ceramic
sets for dating, fails to support contentions that the DeSoto entrada passed
through these north Delta sites.
D.G. Hunter, "The Biloxi on Bayou Boeuf: An Ethnohistory and Analysis of
Surface Collections from the Biloxi Village Site (16-Ra-60), Rapides Parish,
Louisiana." A thorough literature review and a list of diagnostic
artifacts including French and Choctaw tradition pottery is supported as the
site of the ca. 1804 village of a remnant of this Gulf Coast tribe.
30 (1995) S. H. Hogue, A. Byrd, J.
Jacobson, "A Secondary Burial from the Rolling Hills Subdivision in
Starkville, Mississippi: osteological and Archaeological Implications."
The Rolling Hills site complex is widely believed to be the 16th century area of
the Chakchiuma. Many occupation areas and graves have been destroyed by the
expansion of Starkville. A secondary mass bundle burial or ossuary containing
parts of 8 people was salvaged and dated ca. 1650-1675. Carbon isotope analysis
indicates that these people were corn agriculturalists more dependent on corn
than their prehistoric predecessors in Oktibeha County. In contrast to Alabama
Mississippi period populations, the Rolling Hills people had low levels of
anemia and traumatic injury. The main pathologies were arthritis/osteoporosis
and dental caries (cavities). Low population densities are proposed.
E. Peacock, "Test Excavations at an Upland Mississippian Site in
Oktibbeha County, Mississippi." While the site discussed lies outside
the Delta in the Black Prairie of east Mississippi, this is an important study
of an apparently early (12th c.) wattle-and-daub house site with sand tempered
and shell-tempered pottery. The site is very shallow, but one TL date was
obtained.
J.A. Voss, "The Persistence of Choctaw Pottery." This review
article examines the cultural significance of incised and combed pottery in
maintaining a Choctaw cultural identity in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Decorated pottery from three Kemper County (central eastern Mississippi) were
examined.
J.C. Brandon and C.H. McNutt, "The 'Sardis' Cormorant Cord Impressed
Vessel." A globular Early Woodland pot probably from the Tallahatchie
River is described and illustrated. The literature concerning this Tchula period
type is briefly reviewed.
J. Miles-Seely, "Preserving the Swan Lake Canoe." Technical
considerations concerning stabilization of the dugout canoe recovered during CRM
work at 22-Ws-776 on Steele Bayou in Washington County. It is 25' long, made of
cypress with end platforms and dates to the Late Mississippi period.
31 (1996) D. Morgan, "Historic Period
Chickasaw Indians: Chronology and Settlement Patterns." The colonial
Chickasaw settlement area lay in the Black Prairie of northeast Mississippi,
with historic villages at the present site of Tupelo. Morgan offers a dating
scheme for Chickasaw sites based on frequency seriation of sand and shell
tempered pottery types. Morgan concludes that while ceramics and other material
culture changed between the protohistoric period and Indian Removal ca. 1830,
settlement patterns remained the same. The study includes a detailed literature
review of work on the evolution of Chickasaw settlement by Atkinson, Johnson and
others.
M. Holland-Lilly, "Batesville Mounds: Recent Investigations at a Middle
Woodland Site" and J. Ford "Preliminary Impressions from the
Batesville Mound Group." This mound group in a city park was the
subject of several University of Mississippi field schools. The site overlooks
the Tallahatchie River where it flows from the hills into the Delta. These
studies include numerous maps and illustrations of early-to-middle Woodland
period ceramics.
S.H. Houge, Suzanne Bufkin and Heather Rushing, "European Contact,
Burial Behavior, Health, and Diet: A Case Study from Starkville,
Mississippi." Corn in the diet as well as the use of secondary (bundle)
burials increased in a cluster of the protohistoric period homesteads on the
edge of the Black Prairie. Documented Choctaw and Chickasaw burial traditions
are reviewed and mortality profiles and diet are examined for samples from this
population.
J. Connaway and S.McGahey, "Archaeological Reconnaissance: Survey of
Remnant Braided Stream Surfaces in the Western Central Yazoo Basin,
Mississippi." The Bouge Phalia ('Long Bayou') backswamp of Bolivar and
Washington counties have the potential to produce late Paleo and early Archaic
sites. However, in contrast to older surfaces in the eastern edge of the Yazoo
basin, due to land-leveling for rice cultivation (67% of the area), it appears
that most of these sites have been destroyed. 56 additional diagnostic early
bifaces from the survey are described and illustrated. There appears to be a
cultural divide in the subtleties of tool manufacture and maintenance between
the two remnant early Holocene terraces.
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33 (1998) J.P. Brain, "A Note on the
River of Anilco." Brain continues his speculation on the route of the
DeSoto entrada in the Mississippi valley.
34 (1999) K.H. Carleton, "Nanih Waiya
(22Wl500): An Historical and Archaeological Overview." Although Nanih
Waiya, the mythological origin of the Choctaw people lies outside the Delta,
this is an important prehistoric mound. The site was once a state park and is
now the property of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. Carleton is MBCI
tribal archaeologist and he presents a thorough overview of archaeology at the
site.
J.H. House, M.E. Starr and L.C. Stewart-Abernathy, "Rediscovering
Menard." This brief report discusses the 1997-1998 excavations and
other investigations at this important prehistoric, protohistoric and colonial
site at the mouth of the Arkansas River.
M.E. Starr and R.C. Mainfort, "The Harry Osborn Collection: An Early
Nineteenth-Century Artifact Assemblage from Memphis, Tennessee." This
small collection, poorly documented collection appears to be from a ca. 1815
cabin with mudstick chimney and forehearth cellar; it includes a variety of
aboriginal ceramics typical of the Choctaw and the Chickasaw as well as English
pottery and a few metal clothing ornaments (cross, cufflinks, brooches, tinkler
cone, and button.) Bone comes from domesticated (hog, chicken, cattle-or
possibly buffalo) and wild (deer, coon, turkey, fat mucket mussel) species.
Arson was a favored means of running Indian and "half-Indian" families
out of early Shelby County.
35 (2000) J.R. Atkinson, "Death of a
Chickasaw Leader: The Probable Grave of Piomingo." This grave, found by
an earth-moving machine in 1956 included a 1793 silver peace medal, remains of a
military uniform coat, many other silver ornaments, a bucket containing many
tools, a flintlock musket, saddle and spurs. Atkinson provides an extensive
literature review with many bibliographical citations supporting his conclusion
that this was the grave of a respected war leader who died at Long Town in
1798/99.
D.C. Sims and J.M. Connaway, "Updated Chronometric Database for
Mississippi." This large table with extensive bibliography cites 416
C14 dates as well as a few dates obtained from other methods.
T. Lolley, "Archaeology at the Lyon's Bluff Site, A Mississippian and
Protohistoric Settlement in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi." A
literature review to supplement new mapping efforts at this mound group,
focusing on Richard Marshall's work in the 1960s.
S.O. Brookes, "Archaeology from Memory: Lyon's Bluff, 1968."
This was Brookes' field school site, of which he has many humorous
recollections.
P.K. Galloway, "Archaeology from the Archives: The Chambers Excavations
at Lyon's Bluff, 1934-35." Detailed examination of the initial
excavations, with many photos and maps.
36 (2001) K.A. Baca, "Destruction of
the Blain Mound, A Mississippian Period Site in the Pearl River valley,
Mississippi." While this site lies outside the Delta in the central
Mississippi Piney Woods, it is typical of the uncurbed site destruction in the
Jackson metropolitan area and is a good study in the ineffectual efforts of
state regulators. Slight salvage work resulted in limited artifact recovery and
three C14 dates (ca. 1100-1300 AD).
J.K. Johnson, "An Obituary." This comically-titled report
describes University of Mississippi field school work at the Batesville Mounds
(22-Pa-500), and states reasons for abandoning a traditional taxonomic unit, the
early Middle Woodland Twin Lakes Phase. Early ceramics are illustrated.
37 (2002) K.A. Baca, "Correspondence
Between James A. Ford and Henry B. Collins: Selected letters: 1927-1941." Two
of early Americanist archaeology's most important practitioners had Mississippi
roots. These letters document the contribution of Collins' mentoring on the
development of Ford's career.
S. McGahey, "The Short #3 Site (22Pa750): Phase Two
Investigations." There are many Paleo/Early Archaic sites on the
eastern braided stream surface along the loess bluffs. Local amateur Jay
Mitchell saw to it that this Panola County site was investigated through surface
collecting, test units, soil cores, OCR dates, geophysical prospecting and
geomorphic interpretation by many regional earth scientists. McGahey analyzed
the lithics, which are well described and illustrated. Clovis, Coldwater, Cache
River, Jude, Pine Tree, White Springs and Benton points were recovered along
with adz/choppers, unifaces, debitage, preforms and fire-cracked rock. Tan chert
gravel was the overwhelmingly prevalent raw material.
38 (2003)
THE ARKANSAS ARCHEOLOGIST
These abstracts focus on Mississippi Valley, Late
Prehistoric sites and the historic tribes. Some studies of the uplands and
historic period are excluded.
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15 (1974) C.M. Baker, "Preliminary
Investigations at the Mill Creek Site, 3ST12, Stone County, Arkansas." Artifacts
from salvage work at an Ozark Escarpment Misissippian site.
D.F. Morse, "A Possible Nodena Phase Pottery Figurine." An
untempered clay fragment of a human torso, not in the style of
Hopewell-Marksville tradition examples, from 3MS7.
A.B. Wesolowski, "Investigations at Two Sites in Southwestern
Arkansas." Sites 3Dr55 and 3DR96, on Bayou Bartholomew in Drew County,
were tested 1972-1973, producing evidence of Baytown and Mississippian
occupation.
D.F. Morse, "A Zoomorphic Locust Stone Bead from Northeast
Arkansas." Another 3MS7 anomaly is a jasper bead, typical of the Middle
Archaic, but collected on a site dominated by Mississippian ceremonial center
deposits. Morse suggests it is a prehistoric curated find, as the site lacks
evidence of Archaic occupation. Locusts are very high in protein and fat.
F.F.Schambach, "A Unique Engraved Steatite Bowl from Southwest
Arkansas." Association in a small campsite with novaculite debitage,
fire-cracked rock and a gorget suggest that this decorated soapstone vessel from
Kings Creek in Columbia County is of Poverty Point date. The remarkable incised
decoration somewhat resembles Marksville culture designs.
T.C. Klinger, "Report on the 1974 Test Excavations at the Knappenburger
Site, Mississippi County, Arkansas." 3MS54 testing revealed deep
Baytown and Late Mississippi Nodena phase occupation. Cane impressed daub,
postholes and floors from houses were found, along with such diagnostics as
Mississippian pottery types, arrows and pebble celts.
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25/26 (1987 for 1984 and 1985) P.K. White,
"The Gordon Site: A Middle Coles Creek to Late Mississippi period
Occupation in Ashley County, Southeast Arkansas." White was the first
amateur to complete the training program's final requirement of producing a
published site report. Ed and Patsy White conducted excavations 1970-1978 at a
Saline River midden and cemetery, and recovered a wide range of artifacts.
Ceramics, bone/shell tools and intact vessels are well described and
illustrated.
S. Dickinson, "Arkansas's Spanish Halberds." Continuing the
endless De Soto debates with possible entrada artifacts from Cambden, Big Eddy
on White River, Helena battlefield and Napoleon townsite (19th c.), with
consideration of Mississippi specimens (Schlater and Luxapillila River in
Lowndes County) and 1930s correspondence with Spanish 16th c. arms expert Capt.
Parada Coarvello.
R.T. Saucier, "The Physical Setting of the Ouachita, Saline and Little
Missouri Rivers, Southern Arkansas." Focus on relative dating of
Upland, Prairie, Deweyville, and Holocene streamwise terraces. Includes glossary
of geomorphic terms.
Citations, Abstracts and Index for Society Publications (Excluding Field Notes),
from 1960 to 1987. Includes subject index.
27/28 (1989 for 1986 and 1987) F.F.
Schambach, "The End of the Trail: The Route of Hernando De Soto's Army
Through Southwestern Arkansas and East Texas." Re-evaluation of the
1939 commission's conclusions based on modern archaeology, local physiography
and speculation on the ethnohistoric narratives of the entrada.
C.R. McGimsey III, "Quapaw Sites on the Lower Arkansas River."
Attributes of late 17th century assemblages are detailed, and whole vessels
attributed to Quapaw occupation are illustrated. 13 sites are proposed to
represent French colonial-period occupation.
K. Murray, "Bioarchaeology of the Parkin Site, Cross County."
This Late Mississippi period moated and mounded town has seen extensive work
since becoming a state park. Diet, trauma, age-sex variation in mortuary ritual
and the always-fascinating DeSoto entrada are considered. Teeth showed a high
rate of caries (cavities) and low wear (attributable to the use of wooden
mortars) typical of Southeastern Mississippian populations. Signs of anemia are
high but lower than at some Mississippian sites, and infectious disease rates
are also high, as expected.
W.F. Limp, "Report on Emergency Excavations of Two Features at 3NW539,
Boxley Valley, Buffalo National River." Two pits from this Ozarks site
contained shell-tempered pottery and Sequoya stemmed arrows were recovered. An
extensive floral and fauna study of the oak barrens is included.
J.H. Ray, "Preliminary Survey: Pitkin Chert Artifacts in Southern
Missouri." This black chert derives from Mississippian limestones in
the northern Ozarks of Arkansas. 91 bifaces from Missouri sites and 43 pieces of
debitage (mostly late-stage or maintenance debitage from a single Webster
County, Missouri, site) are examined. It was used throughout prehistory, but
primarily in the Archaic.
R.M.Gramley, "An Engraved Stone Pipebowl from Arkansas." This
unprovienienced item from old museum collections is a sandstone cat-monster or
underwater panther ('piasa'). Similar items are known from Moundville.
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31 (1992 for 1990) M.A. Rolingson,
"Excavations of Mound S at the Toltec Mounds Site: Preliminary
Report." This low circumplaza mound at the Plum Bayou culture
ceremonial center 3LN42 produced detailed stratigraphy and a large bone bed
indicative of feasting. This report focuses on the stratigraphy.
C. McCrocklin, "Three Historic Sites on Red River." Immigrant
Cherokee and Delaware occupation sites, as well as 1817-1822 Sulphur Fork
trading agency, are documented. English ceramics, bottle glass used as scrapers,
and many metal artifacts are described.
G.E. Lankford, "Reysed After There Manner." The early
ethnohistoric record of the use of litters as symbols of elite status, and the
symbolic significance of the act.
J.H. Ray, "Chipped Stone Resource Availability and Exploitation at
3CR238." Various Ozark cherts (Osagean, Pierson, Reeds Springs, and
Jefferson City) used at an upper White River site, including geologic and
secondary (gravel) sources, macroscopic characteristics, and technological
capacities.
32 (1993 for 1991) M.A. Rolingson,
"Archeology along Bayou Bartholomew, Southeast Arkansas." Detailed
reports and artifact analysis on 1969-1970 testing at 5 Ashley and Chicot county
sites, in the Bayou Bartholomew basin, with general environmental background and
20 year later afterthoughts on the prehistoric phases represented.
T. Childs, "Variations of Walls Engraved and Rhodes Incised
Pottery." Iconography and ritual use of elaborately decorated
Memphis-area Late Mississippian pottery, with descriptions and illustrations of
many vessels.
J.H. House, "Decoding Mississippian Ceramic Art in the Central
Mississippi Valley." House's critique of noted avocational
archaeologist Childs' efforts, providing more context for the study of style.
33 (1994 for 1992) J.H. House and M.D.
Jeter, "Excavations at Boydell Mound A (3AS58), Southeast Arkansas."
Site report on salvage of mound and graves at a Coles Creek period site on Bayou
Bartholomew in Ashley County, including floral, faunal and human remains
analyses.
Masters Theses Abstracts, Arkansas Archeology or Related Topics, University
of Arkansas, 1960-1994. D.S. Anderson (1973, Zebree excavation methods), C.M.
Baker (1974, novaculite quarries), J. Barnett (1982, season and age of deer), J.
Bennett (1980, petrographic analysis of Toltec ceramics), C. Bond (1977, Gober
Complex artifact function), R.L. Brooks (1976, lithics), E.L. Buie (1986, season
and age of deer), B. Burnett (1989, Ozark-Ouachita bioarchaeology), P. Clancy
(1985, Depression-era pothunting at Carden's Bottom), J. Cobb (1976, Brontke
rockshelter function), R.J. Cochran (1979, Village Creek settlement patterns),
M.R. Collier (1984, War Eagle Creek settlement patterns), D.M. Ernest (1994,
Little Rock's Oak Leaf Hotel), J.A. Farley (1983, DELOS data base management),
J.K. Finney (1989, Cherokee homesteaders), E. Garrison (1973, ceramic dating
through alpha recoil tracks in mica), A. Goodyear (1971, Dalton technology at
Brand), J. Hilliard (1980,Ozark oak-hickory forests and settlement/subsistence
patterns), T.L. Hoffman (1982, Toltec lithics), R.W. Hoffman (1981, Toltec
fauna), S.M. Imhoff (1982, soils and settlement patterns), J.S. Joyce (1981, War
Eagle Creek pioneer settlement patterns), D.G. Jurney (1979, Fayetteville
cellars and fauna), J. Kerr (1992, soil phosphates at Huntsville site), T.C.
Klinger (1977, Village Creek settlement and subsistence patterns), P. Martin
(1971, Bright's trading house/Montgomery's tavern at Arkansas Post), W.A. Martin
(1981, 76 Fancy Hill sites), M.A. Mathis (1980, Village Creek Basin lithic
materials), H. StC. McKelway (1987, McClendon Tunican cemetery), R.C. Medlock
(1976, MNI in faunal analysis), J.L.Mintz (1989, Ozark ceramics), A.M. Mires
(1983, Caddo human biology), K.A. Murray (1989, contact period human biology),
M.S. Nassaney (1982, Toltec survey), M.L.Powell (1977, Zebree burials), D.C.
Quinn (1977, Johnson grist mill), R.H. Ray (1978, mussel seasonality), J.A.
Scholtz (1967, Beaver Reservoir survey), S.C. Scholtz (1970, Ozark nets, baskets
and fabrics), C.S. Spears (1978, methods at the Woodland DeRossitt site), M.
Sierzchula (1983, Zebree microliths), D.S. Stahle (1981, tree-ring dating log
buildings), A. Stanfill (1982, Toltec lithics), J. Stewart-Abernathy (1985,
Toltec ceramic clays), R.A. Thomas (1968, Breckinridge rockshelter), E. Zahn
(1985, Caddo mortuary practices), M.L. Zinke (1975, Hazel burials), C.L. Cleland
(1960, zoology department, Ozark Bluffs fauna).
34...
35 (1996 for 1994) M.S. Nassaney,
"The Contributions of the Plum Bayou Survey Project, 1988-94, to the Native
Settlement History of Central Arkansas." Large numbers of sites in
Pulaski and Lincoln Counties in the Arkansas River Lowland have components
related to the large Late Woodland ceremonial center at Toltec Mound State Park.
Many have been tested or excavated and the material composition of much of the
culture has been documented. 21 C14 dates from Toltec, Alexander and other sites
are discussed. This is a detailed and thorough discussion of a long-term
project.
C. Smith, "Analysis of Plant Remains from Mound S at the Toltec Mounds
Site." The low platform called Mound S is considered to be the site of
a Late Woodland feast that resulted in a thick off-mound deposit of deer and
other bone. Corn, cucurbits and a wide range of native grains are reported. The
report includes extensive discussion of corn in other early contexts.
M.L. Williams, "Plant Remains from Locus 3 at the Parkin Site." 95%
of the sample from 3 features contained corn. Many other food plants such as
sunflower, beans, maygrass, nuts, squash, persimmon and acorns and other nuts
were also recovered. There is abundant evidence that the "weeds" of
the Eastern Agricultural Complex still played some part in Late Mississippi
subsistence at 3CS29.
J.M. Mitchem, "Investigations of the Possible Remains of DeSoto's Cross
at Parkin." The 1966 excavations recovered evidence of a very large
post on the main mound. DeSoto's men erected a large cross and prayed for rain,
which when it relieved a drought, insinuated them with the Casqui. The wood from
1966 produced a 16th c. date.
B.S. Shaffer and T.K. Perttula, "Analysis of Vertebrate Faunal Remains
from 3LA185, a Late Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Century Site of Possible
Delaware Indian Affiliation." In 1817, 30 Lenni Lenape refugees were
living around the Great Bend of the Red. Broken and burned bone includes
buffalo/cattle, horse, pig, chickens, and house cat as well as tradition game
species such as deer, turkey, squirrel, geese and ducks, coon, bear and fish.
36 (1997 for 1995) J.H. House, Noble Lake:
A Protohistoric Archeological Site on the Lower Arkansas River."
Traditionally considered a 'Quapaw' site, the conservative House offers detailed
material culture descriptions without proffering ethnic identity. In addition to
surface collected ceramics and lithics such as Madison arrow points and
endscrapers, a few historic artifacts, and private collection whole vessels and
other artifacts from graves and the regional context are discussed. Two late
horizons, Poor (1500-1600) and Douglas (1600-1700) are proposed for the Lower
Arkansas to replace the Quapaw phase.
37(1998 for 1996) S.L. Scott and H.E.
Jackson, "Early Caddo Ritual and Patterns of Animal Use: An Analysis of
Faunal Remains from the Crenshaw Site (3MI6), Southwestern Arkansas."
This ceremonial center included a " human skull plaza" and a sheltered
pile of the antlers of over 1000 deer. Ethnohistory, exotic artifacts, and
context are all considered. A great range of mammals, birds (many with
distinctive plumage but not traditional included in food remains) and fish were
represented in excavated contexts and are discussed in detail as they relate to
hunting practices and elite behavior.
L.C. Stewart-Abernathy, "Some Archaeological Perspectives on the
Arkansas Cherokee." This is primarily a consideration of documentary
evidence of immigrant Cherokees ca. 1790-1820. Stewart-Abernathy considers
obstacles to the identification of archaeological deposits with the already
highly acculturated Cherokee and describes work at 3PP449, which has produced
English ceramics, gunflints and metal. Glass beads and cut brass scrap may tie
the deposit to the immigrant Cherokee.
R. Hooper, J. Nance, M.L. Powell, and F.F. Schambach, "The Hood Site,
Hempstead County, Arkansas." Excavations were conducted at this late
Fourche Maline village on Ozan Creek between 1964 and 1972. 8 extended
inhumation graves with remains of 11 people were excavated (one had a boatstone
and the population did not have a caries/cavities problem seen in corn-dependent
populations) and a large assemblage of ceramics and lithics were recovered. Gary
was the main point type, but a long span of other types was also present.
38 (1999 for 1997) K.Keeney, H.T. Childs,
and C.H. McNutt, "Surface Collections from the Friend Levee Site (3MS69)
and the Friend Terrace Site (3MS70)." Detailed descriptions of ceramics
from a protohistoric site, part of the old 'Pecan Point' site, match published
descriptions for the region.
D.E. Ghalib, "Subadult Health in a Northeastern Arkansas Middle
Mississippian Site." 80 of 200 individual's skeletons from McDuffee or
Soday (3CG21) in Craighead County in the Cache River basin were juveniles. They
displayed porotic hyperosteosis and dental hypoplasia from weaning stress and/or
infection, iron-deficient anemia, scurvy, and congenital rickets and other
inherited abnormalities. Regional geography, culture history, as well as earlier
and later comparative cases are thoroughly considered. Much of the pathology is
attributable to the adoption of corn agriculture as the basis of the diet,
especially the use of mush for weaning more closely spaced children.
39...
40 (2001 for 1999) J.M. Mitchem and T.S.
Mulvihill, "The 1995 Salvage Excavations at the Armorel Site (3MS23)."
Five extended primary adult graves were disturbed by a septic tank at this
major very late Mississippian site in Mississippi County.
B. Pavao-Zuckerman, "A Dog Burial Excavated at the Armorel Site,
Arkansas (3MS23)." A dog from the salvage work is also described. This
mature male was about a .7 m long (excluding tail), .7 m tall and weighed about
14 kg.
H.T. Childs and C.H. McNutt, "The Wilson Site of James K. Hampson."
Dr. Hampson was an important early amateur archaeologist, and local
avocational archaeologist Childs has devoted considerable time to tracking down
and documenting Hampson's work. A state park at Wilson houses the Hampson
Collection. Collections, features and Mississippian artifacts, including
complete vessels, are described and illustrated.
F.F. Schambach, "Fourche Maline and its Neighbors: Observations on an
Important Woodland Period Culture of the Trans-Mississippi South." This
culture, extant 1000/500 BC-AD 800 was ancestral to the Caddoan tribes. Sites
are known from Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma. This extensive and
detailed article describes chronological, artifactual and other cultural traits
and trends.
41-42...
43 (2004 for 2002) M.B. Trubitt, T. Green,
and A. Early, "A Research Design for Investigating Novaculite Quarry Sites
in the Ouachita Mountains." Novaculite, still mined for whetstones, was
a major prehistoric lithic resource in the Mid-South and Trans-Mississippi South
(there are also sources in West Texas). Work with the USDA Forest Service has
resulted in a detailed plan for studying the 44 known quarries. The main areas
are in Montgomery, Garland, Hot Spring and Polk Counties of central Arkansas;
the material was used by most prehistoric cultures and the distinctive material
is frequently found on Delta sites. This article includes an extensive
bibliography.
R.C. Mainfort and C.H. McNutt, "Dating the Hazel Site." This
large mound has extensive occupation over a long period of the Middle and Late
Mississippi period (12th through 16th c.). 16 old C14 dates are re-evaluated.
Most archaeological work at the site was in the early and mid 20th century.
R. Fisher-Carroll and R.C. Mainfort, "A Ceramic Replica of an Astragalus
Die." "Dice" made from elk and deer toe bones are a major
marker for very late occupation in northeast Arkansas. A ceramic example from
Bradley (3CT7) in Crittenden County is described. Examples from 24 graves,
mostly juveniles, from sites along the Mississippi are known.
UNIVERSITY PRESSES
Since all these
fine folks are always sending me offers to relieve me of my cash, I though I’d
pass the favor on to all of you not blessed with such junk mail. Here is a list
of academic presses publishing archaeology and then a selection of their titles
that might be of interest to my readers. I will try to limit myself to the
themes covered in this webpage—archaeology, history and natural environments
across the southern US, and the world-wide case studies of comparable
environments (the Parana and Danube basins, the Indus-Ganges plains, and the
major river basins and lakes regions of eastern China). There are brief reviews
of the books I’ve read.
University of
California Press (Berkeley). www.ucpress.edu/anthropology. A large catalogue
of world-wide studies, especially Asia/Pacific and Latin America. Lots of
current socio-political theory and classics of American cultural anthropology.
Texas Tech
University Press (Lubbock). www.ttup.ttu.edu. A smaller college, the press
focuses on local (Southern Plains) works of history and adult and children’s
literature, but includes plenty of photography, poetry and memoirs.
The University
of Utah Press (Salt Lake City). www.UofUPress.com. They publish lots of
Southwestern and Plains archaeology and linguistics, some Mesoamerican studies,
and hiking guides, as well as having a Turkish and Islamic studies unit,
biography, literature and poetry, and of course the cults of that state.
Anthropology—American Indians (Western US)
Anthropology—Anglo-American (Western US)
Anthropology/Ethnography--Theory
Anthropology—Eastern U.S.
Anthropology—Spanish American
Archaeology—Environmental and Ecological
Archaeology--Ethnoarchaeolgy
Archaeology—Atlantic US
Archaeology—US
Plains
Archaeology—Southwest US
Archaeology--Paleoindian
Archaeology—Theory
Geology (Western
US)
Geography—Ecology (North America)
Geography/Biology—Guides to Flora
Geography/Biology—North American Fauna
Geography
(Western US)—Historic
Geography
(China)
History—African-American
History—Anglo-American
History—Modern
Immigrants to America
History—Native
American
History—Northern
India
History—Spanish-American
History--China
Historic
Conservation and Heritage Tourism
Linguistics—American Indian
Linguistics—American Spanish
Linguistics—Indo-Iranian and Dravidian
Linguistics--Theory
Material Culture
(North America)
Anthropology—American Indians (Western US)
The Road on
Which We Came (Po’I Pentun Tammen Kimmappeh): A history of the western Shoshone.
Steven J. Crum. University of Utah.
Mountain Spirit:
The Sheep Eater Indians of Yellowstone. Lawrence L. Loendorf and nancy
Madaris Stone. University of Utah.
Indians in
Yellowstone National Park, rev. ed. Joel Janetski. University of Utah.
I, the Song:
classical poetry of Native North America. A.L. Soens. University of Utah.
The Mountain
Chant: a Navajo ceremony. Washington Matthews. University of Utah.
Navajo Places:
history, legend, landscape: A place-name guide to Navajoland. Laurance D.
Linford. University of Utah.
White Justice in
Arizona: Apache murder trials in the nineteenth century. Clare V. McKanna
Jr. Texas Tech University Press.
Tales of the
Wichitas. Basil Moss. Texas Tech University Press.
Ghost Dances and
Identity: prophetic religion and American Indian ethnogenesis in the nineteenth
century. Gregory E. Smoak. 2006. University of California Press.
Anthropology—Anglo-American (Western US)
West Texas: a
portrait of its people and their raw and wondrous land. Mike Cochran and
John Lumpkin. Texas Tech University Press.
Alkali Trails:
social and economic movements of the Texas frontier, 1849-1900. William
Curry Holden. Texas Tech University Press.
White Justice in
Arizona: Apache murder trials in the nineteenth century. Clare V. McKanna
Jr. Texas Tech University Press.
Anthropology—Eastern U.S.
Working-class
White: the making and unmaking of race relations. Monica McDermott.
University of California Press.
Anthropology—Spanish American
The Farmworkers’
Journey. Ann Aurelia Lopez. University of California Press.
Anthropology/Ethnography--Theory
Subjectivity:
ethnographic investigations. Ed. Joao Biehl, Byron Good, and Arthur
Kleinman. 2007. University of California Press.
Archaeology—Environmental and Ecological
Environmental
Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest. Eds. David E.
Doyel and Jeffery S. Dean. University of Utah.
Twilight of the
Mammoths: Ice Age extinctions and the rewilding of America. Paul S. Martin.
2005. University of California Press.
Archaeology--Ethnoarchaeolgy
Living with
Pottery: ethnoarchaeology among the Gamo of southwest Ethiopia. John W.
Arthur. University of Utah.
Archaeology—Atlantic US
The Archaeology
of Liberty in an American Capital: excavations in Annapolis. Mark P. Leone.
2005. University of California Press.
Archaeology—US
Plains
Plains Village
Archaeology: bison-hunting farmers in the central and northern Plains. Eds.
Stanley A. Ahler and Marvin Kay. 2007. University of Utah.
The Story of
Palo Duro Canyon. Ed Duane Guy. Texas Tech University Press.
After the
Massacre: the violent legacy of the San Saba mission. Robert S. Weddle.
Texas Tech University Press.
Twilight of the
Mammoths: Ice Age extinctions and the rewilding of America. Paul S. Martin.
2005. University of California Press.
Folsom: new
archaeological investigations of a classic Paleoindian bison kill. David. J.
Meltzer. 2006. University of California Press.
Archaeology—Southwestern US
Signs of Casas
Grandes Shamans. Christine S. VanPool and Todd L. VanPool. University of
Utah.
Prehistoric
Warfare in the American Southwest. Stephen A. leBlanc, 2007. University of
Utah.
Becoming
Aztalan: Mesoamerican influence in the Greater Southwest, AD 1200-1500.Carroll
L. Riley. University of Utah.
Environmental
Change and Human Adaptation in the Ancient American Southwest. Eds. David E.
Doyel and Jeffery S. Dean. University of Utah.
Southwest
Archaeology in the Twentieth Century. Eds. Linda S. Cordell and Don D.
Fowler. University of Utah.
The Chaco
Handbook: an encyclopedic guide. R. Gwinn Vivian and Bruce Hilpert.
University of Utah.
Archaeology--Paleoindian
Twilight of the
Mammoths: Ice Age extinctions and the rewilding of America. Paul S. Martin.
2005. University of California Press.
Folsom: new
archaeological investigations of a classic Paleoindian bison kill. David. J.
Meltzer. 2006. University of California Press.
The First
American: the Pleistocene colonization of the New World. Nina G. Jablonski.
2002. University of California Press.
Archaeology—Theory
Archaeology as a
Process: processualism and its progeny. Michael J. O’Brien, R. Lee Lyman and
Michael B. Schiffer. University of Utah.
Dirt: the
erosion of civilizations. David R. Montgomery. University of California
Press.
Documenting
Domestication: new genetic and archaeological paradigms. Ed. Melinda A.
Zeder, Daniel G. Bradley, Eve Emshwiller, and Bruce D. Smith. 2006. University
of California Press.
Behavioral
Ecology and the Transition to Agriculture. Ed. Douglas J. Kennett and Bruce
Winterhalder. 2006. University of California Press.
Geology (Western
US)
The Geology of
the Parks, Monuments and Wildlands of Southern Utah. Robert Filmore.
University of Utah.
A Hiking Guide
to the Geology of the Wasatch Mountains: Mill Creek and Neffs canyons, Mount
Olympus, Big and Little Cottonwood and Bells Canyons. William T. Perry.
University of Utah.
Canyonlands
Country: Geology of the Canyonlands and Arches National Parks, rev. ed.
Donald L. Baars. University of Utah.
A Traveler’s
Guide to the Geology of the Colorado Plateau. Donald L. Baars. University of
Utah.
Broken Land:
adventures in Great Basin geology. Frank DeCourten. University of Utah.
The Story of
Palo Duro Canyon. Ed Duane Guy. Texas Tech University Press.
Geography—Ecology (North America)
Dirt: the
erosion of civilizations. David R. Montgomery. University of California
Press.
Desert Ecology:
an introduction to life in the arid Southwest. John Sowell. University of
Utah.
Dry Borders:
great natural reserves of the Sonoran desert. Eds. Richard S. Felger and
Bill Broyles. University of Utah.
The Story of
Palo Duro Canyon. Ed Duane Guy. Texas Tech University Press.
Water on the
Great Plains: issues and policies. Ed. Peter J. Longo and David W.
Yoskowitz. Texas Tech University Press.
Playas: jewels
of the Plains. Jim Steiert and photographs by Wymann Meinzer. Texas Tech
University Press.
Ditches across
the Desert: irrigation in the lower Pecos valley. Stephen Bogener. Texas
Tech University Press.
Twilight of the
Mammoths: Ice Age extinctions and the rewilding of America. Paul S. Martin.
2005. University of California Press.
Documenting
Domestication: new genetic and archaeological paradigms. Ed. Melinda A.
Zeder, Daniel G. Bradley, Eve Emshwiller, and Bruce D. Smith. 2006. University
of California Press.
Geography/Biology—Guides to Flora
A Guide to the
Plants of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. Ray S. Vizgirdas.
University of Utah.
Native Plants of
Southern Nevada: an ethnobotany. David Rhode. University of Utah.
Field Guide to
the Broad-Leaved Herbaceous Plants of South Texas Used by Livestock and Wildlife.
James H. Everitt, D. Lynn Drawe, and Robert I. Lonard. Texas Tech University
Press.
Trees, Shrubs,
and Cacti of South Texas. James H. Everitt, D. Lynn Drawe, and Robert I.
Lonard. Texas Tech University Press.
Cacti of the
Trans-Pecos and Adjacent Areas. A. Michael Powell and James F. Weedin. Texas
Tech University Press.
Wildflowers of
the Llano Estacado. Francis L. Rose and Russell W. Strandtmann. Texas Tech
University Press.
Ferns and Fern
Allies of the Trans-Pecos and Adjacent Areas. Sharon C. Yarborough and A.
Michael Powell. Texas Tech University Press.
Geography/Biology—North American Fauna
El Lobo:
Readings on the Mexican Gray Wolf. Ed. Tom Lynch. University of Utah.
Borderland
Jaguars:Tigres de la Frontera. David Brown and Carlos A. Lopez-Gonzales.
University of Utah. The jaguar is commonly thought of as a jungle and water cat,
but they have also inhabited scrub country. Mostly hunting stories and
interviews with professional cat-trackers, giving the late historic distribution
to this species, extirpated in the US South and Southwest. Age and sex data of
recorded kills. Conservation problems on the ranches of Sonora, the late 20th
century northern extent of their range. I was hoping it was at least half in
Spanish, but not so.
The Prairie Dog:
sentinel of the Plains. Russell A. Graves. Texas Tech University Press.
Horned Lizards,
rev. ed. Jane Manaster. Texas Tech University Press.
Javelinas.
Jane Manaster. Texas Tech University Press. Texas Tech University Press.
The Roadrunner:
the tenth anniversary edition. Photography by Wyman Meinzer. Texas Tech
University Press.
Coyote.
Photography by Wyman Meinzer. Texas Tech University Press.
Texas Natural
History: a century of change. David J. Schmidly. Texas Tech University
Press.
Invertebrates of
Central Texas Wetlands. Stephen Welton Taber and Scott B. Fleenor. Texas
Tech University Press.
Butterflies of
West Texas Parks and Preserves. Roland H. Wauer. Texas Tech University
Press.
Geography
(Western US)—Historic
Navajo Places:
history, legend, landscape: A place-name guide to Navajoland. Laurance D.
Linford. University of Utah.
Utah Place Names.
John W. Van Cott. University of Utah.
Ditches across
the Desert: irrigation in the lower Pecos valley. Stephen Bogener. Texas
Tech University Press.
From Basin to
Peak: explorer’s encyclopedia to the Colorado-New Mexico San Juan basin.
Wesley M. Howe. Texas Tech University Press.
Geography
(China)
The State of
China Atlas: mapping the world’s fastest growing economy. Stephanie Hemelryk
Donald and Robert Benewick. University of California Press.
History—African-American
The Force of a
Feather: the search for a lost story of slavery and freedom. DeEtta
Demaratus. University of Utah.
Black Pioneers:
images of the black experience on the North American frontier. John W.
Ravage. University of Utah. Too short in text and analysis, but very well
illustrated. Not too polemical, covers the typical cowboys, pioneers and miners,
but with unexpected sections such as women and children and the urban middle
classes. Mostly a picture book appropriate for jr. and high schools.
Freedom on the
Border: the Seminole maroons in Florida, the Indian territory, Coahuila and
Texas. Kevin Mulroy. Texas Tech University Press.
Ties that Bind:
the story of an Afro-Cherokee family in slavery and freedom. Tiya Miles.
University of California Press.
The Archaeology
of Liberty in an American Capital: excavations in Annapolis. Mark P. Leone.
2005. University of California Press.
History—Anglo-American
West Texas: a
portrait of its people and their raw and wondrous land. Mike Cochran and
John Lumpkin. Texas Tech University Press.
Amarillo: the
story of a western town. Paul H. Carlson. Texas Tech University Press.
On Independence
Creek: the story of a Texas Ranch. Charlena Chandler. Texas Tech University
Press.
Oil, Taxes and
Cats: a history of the DeVitt family and the Mallet Ranch. David J. Murrah.
Texas Tech University Press.
Alkali Trails:
social and economic movements of the Texas frontier, 1849-1900. William
Curry Holden. Texas Tech University Press.
TheTexas
Panhandle Frontier, rev. ed. Frederick Rathjen. Texas Tech University Press.
Railwayman’s
Son: a Plains family memoir. Hugh Hawkins. Texas Tech University Press. (the
Rock island in Herrington and Goodland, Kansas, and El Reno, Oklahoma)
Children of the
Dust: an Okie family story. Betty Grant Henshaw, ed. Sandra Scofield. Texas
Tech University Press.
American
Outback: the Oklahoma Panhandle in the twentieth century. Richard century.
Texas Tech University Press.
Blades in the
Sky: windmilling through the eyes of B.H. “Tex” Burdick. T. Lindsay Baker.
Texas Tech University Press.
Great Plains
Cattle Empire: Thatcher Brothers and Associates, 1875-1945. Paul E.
Patterson and Joy Poole. Texas Tech University Press.
Recollections of
western Texas, 1852-55, by two of the U.S. Mounted Rifles. Ed. Robert
Wooster. Texas Tech University Press.
History—Modern
Immigrants to America
From Syria to
Seminole: memoir of a High Plains merchant. Ed Aryain. Texas Tech University
Press.
The Farmworkers’
Journey. Ann Aurelia Lopez. University of California Press.
History—Native
American
White Justice in
Arizona: Apache murder trials in the nineteenth century. Clare V. McKanna
Jr. Texas Tech University Press.
After the
Massacre: the violent legacy of the San Saba mission. Robert S. Weddle.
Texas Tech University Press.
Ties that Bind:
the story of an Afro-Cherokee family in slavery and freedom. Tiya Miles.
University of California Press.
History—Northern
India
River of Love in
an Age of Pollution: the Yamuna River in Northern India. David L. Haberman.
University of California Press. 2006.
The Graves of
Tarim: genealogy and mobility across the Indian Ocean. Engseng Ho.
University of California Press. 2006. Colonization by Hadrami Yemenis.
History—China
Women and
Confucian Cultures in Pre-modern China, Korea and Japan. Ed. Dorothy Ko,
JaHyun Kim Haboush, and Joan R. Piggott. 2003. University of California Press.
History—Spanish-American
The
Dominguez-Escalante Journal: their expedition through Colorado, Utah, Arizona
and New Mexico in 1776. Ed. Ted J. Warner. University of Utah.
Hers, His and
Theirs: community property law in Spain and early Texas. Jean A. Stuntz.
Texas Tech University Press.
Voices from the
San Antonio Missions. Luis Torres. Texas Tech University Press.
After the
Massacre: the violent legacy of the San Saba mission. Robert S. Weddle.
Texas Tech University Press.
Corazon
Contento: Sonoran recipes and stories from the heart. Madeline Gallego
Thorpe and Mary Tate Engals. Texas Tech University Press.
The Farmworkers’
Journey. Ann Aurelia Lopez. University of California Press.
Historic
Conservation and Heritage Tourism
Saving San
Antonio: the precarious preservation of a heritage. Lewis F. Fisher. Texas
Tech University Press.
Voices from the
San Antonio Missions. Luis Torres. Texas Tech University Press.
Linguistics—American Indian
Reading and
Writing the Lakota Language: Lakota lyapi Un Wowapi Nahan Yawapi. Albert
White Hat Sr. and ed. Joel Kampfe. University of Utah.
I, the Song:
classical poetry of Native North America. A.L. Soens. University of Utah.
Linguistics—American Spanish
Platicas:
conversations with Hispano writers of New Mexico. Nasario Garcia. Texas Tech
University Press.
Linguistics—Indo-Iranian and Dravidian
Languages and
Nations: the Dravidian proof in colonial Madras. Thomas R. Trautmann.
University of California Press.
Aryans and
British India.: Thomas R. Trautmann. University of California Press.
Linguistics--Theory
A Glossary of
Historical Linguistics. Lyle Campbell and Mauricio J. Mixco. University of
Utah.
Material Culture
(North America)
Texas Smoke:
muzzle-loaders on the frontier. C.F. Eckhardt. Texas Tech University Press.
Living with
Pottery: ethnoarchaeology among the Gamo of southwest Ethiopia. John W.
Arthur. University of Utah.
Blades in the
Sky: windmilling through the eyes of B.H. “Tex” Burdick. T. Lindsay Baker.
Texas Tech University Press.
Pitchfork
Country: the photography of Bob Moorehouse. Jim Pfluger. Texas Tech
University Press. Moorehouse photographs his work as ranch manager of Pitchfork
Ranch, Guthrie Texas.
The Quilters:
women and domestic art, an oral history. Patricia Cooper and Norma Bradley
Allen. Texas Tech University Press.
Ditches across
the Desert: irrigation in the lower Pecos valley. Stephen Bogener. Texas
Tech University Press.
American
Railroads of the Nineteenth century: a pictorial history in Victorian wood
engravings. Jim Harter. Texas Tech University Press.
Corazon Contento:
Sonoran recipes and stories from the heart. Madeline Gallego Thorpe and Mary
Tate Engals. Texas Tech University Press.
