Two Prehistoric Villages in Middle Tennessee
Author | : William Edward Myer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : William Edward Myer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tanya M. Peres |
Publisher | : University Press of Florida |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2019-01-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1683400771 |
For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Middle Cumberland River Valley harvested shellfish for food and raw materials and then deposited the remains in dense concentrations along the river. Very little research has been published on the Archaic period shell deposits in this region. Demonstrating that nearly forty such sites exist, this volume presents the results of recent surveys, excavations, and laboratory work as well as fresh examinations of past investigations that have been difficult for scholars to access. In these essays, contributors describe an emergency riverbank survey of shell-bearing sites that were discovered, reopened, or damaged in the aftermath of recent flooding. Their studies of these sites feature stratigraphic analysis, radiocarbon dating, zooarchaeological data, and other interpretive methods. Other essays in the volume provide the first widely accessible summary of previous work on sites that have long been known. Contributors also address larger topics such as geospatial analysis of settlement patterns, research biases, and current debates about site formation processes related to shell-bearing sites. This volume provides an enormous amount of valuable data from the abundant material record of a fascinating people, place, and time. It is a landmark synthesis that will improve our understanding of the individual communities and broader cultures that created shell-bearing sites across the southeastern United States. Contributors: David G. Anderson | Thaddeus G. Bissett | Stephen B. Carmody | Aaron Deter-Wolf | Andrew Gillreath-Brown | Joey Keasler | Kelly L. Ledford | D. Shane Miller | Dan F. Morse | Tanya M. Peres | Ryan W. Robinson | Leslie Straub | Andrew R. Wyatt A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
Author | : Edwin A. Lyon |
Publisher | : University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0817307915 |
Utilizing primary sources that include correspondence and unpublished reports, Lyon demonstrates the great importance of the New Deal projects in the history of southeastern and North American archaeology. New Deal archaeology transformed the practice of archaeology in the Southeast and created the basis for the discipline that exists today.
Author | : Aaron Deter-Wolf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2021-08-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780826502155 |
Was Nashville once home to a giant race of humans? No, but in 1845, you could have paid a quarter to see the remains of one who allegedly lived here before The Flood. That summer Middle Tennessee well diggers had unearthed the skeleton of an American mastodon. Before it went on display, it was modified and augmented with wooden "bones" to make it look more like a human being and passed off as an antediluvian giant. Then, like so many Nashvillians, after a little success here, it went on tour and disappeared from history. But this fake history of a race of Pre-Nashville Giants isn't the only bad history of what, and who, was here before Nashville. Sources written for schoolchildren and the public lead us to believe that the first Euro-Americans arrived in Nashville to find a pristine landscape inhabited only by the buffalo and boundless nature, entirely untouched by human hands. Instead, the roots of our city extend some 14,000 years before Illinois lieutenant-governor-turned-fur-trader Timothy Demonbreun set foot at Sulphur Dell. During the period between about AD 1000 and 1425, a thriving Native American culture known to archaeologists as the Middle Cumberland Mississipian lived along the Cumberland River and its tributaries in today's Davidson County. Earthen mounds built to hold the houses or burials of the upper class overlooked both banks of the Cumberland near what is now downtown Nashville. Surrounding densely packed village areas including family homes, cemeteries, and public spaces stretched for several miles through Shelby Bottoms, and the McFerrin Park, Bicentennial Mall, and Germantown neighborhoods. Other villages were scattered across the Nashville landscape, including in the modern neighborhoods of Richland, Sylvan Park, Lipscomb, Duncan Wood, Centennial Park, Belle Meade, White Bridge, and Cherokee Park. The book is the first effort by legitimate archaeologists to articulate the history of what happened here before Nashville happened.
Author | : Aaron Deter-Wolf |
Publisher | : Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2021-08-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0826502164 |
Was Nashville once home to a giant race of humans? No, but in 1845, you could have paid a quarter to see the remains of one who allegedly lived here before The Flood. That summer, Middle Tennessee well diggers had unearthed the skeleton of an American mastodon. Before it went on display, it was modified and augmented with wooden “bones” to make it look more like a human being and passed off as an antediluvian giant. Then, like so many Nashvillians, after a little success here, it went on tour and disappeared from history. But this fake history of a race of Pre-Nashville Giants isn’t the only bad history of what, and who, was here before Nashville. Sources written for schoolchildren and the public lead us to believe that the first Euro-Americans arrived in Nashville to find a pristine landscape inhabited only by the buffalo and boundless nature, entirely untouched by human hands. Instead, the roots of our city extend some 14,000 years before Illinois lieutenant-governor-turned-fur-trader Timothy Demonbreun set foot at Sulphur Dell. During the period between about AD 1000 and 1425, a thriving Native American culture known to archaeologists as the Middle Cumberland Mississippian lived along the Cumberland River and its tributaries in today’s Davidson County. Earthen mounds built to hold the houses or burials of the upper class overlooked both banks of the Cumberland near what is now downtown Nashville. Surrounding densely packed village areas including family homes, cemeteries, and public spaces stretched for several miles through Shelby Bottoms, and the McFerrin Park, Bicentennial Mall, and Germantown neighborhoods. Other villages were scattered across the Nashville landscape, including in the modern neighborhoods of Richland, Sylvan Park, Lipscomb, Duncan Wood, Centennial Park, Belle Meade, White Bridge, and Cherokee Park. This book is the first public-facing effort by legitimate archaeologists to articulate the history of what happened here before Nashville happened.
Author | : United States. Superintendent of Documents |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2316 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James Bennett Griffin |
Publisher | : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY |
Total Pages | : 755 |
Release | : 1966-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1949098176 |
Author | : James A. Brown |
Publisher | : U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0915703394 |
Author | : Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 928 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 1943 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |