The Cumberland River Archaic Of Middle Tennessee

Author : Tanya M. Peres
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 1683400771
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Download or read book The Cumberland River Archaic of Middle Tennessee written by Tanya M. Peres and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Patricia Cridlebaugh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
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Download or read book Penitentiary Branch written by Patricia Cridlebaugh and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Aaron Deter-Wolf
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN 13 : 0826502164
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mastodons to Mississippians written by Aaron Deter-Wolf and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Tom D. Dillehay
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prehistory of the Middle Cumberland River Valley written by Tom D. Dillehay and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert B. Ferguson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
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Download or read book The Middle Cumberland Culture written by Robert B. Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. Clifford Boyd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book Archaeological Investigations in the Watauga Reservoir, Carter and Johnson Counties, Tennessee written by C. Clifford Boyd and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 106 pages
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Download or read book Tennessee Anthropologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jefferson Chapman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Archaic Period Research in the Lower Little Tennessee River Valley - written by Jefferson Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
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Download or read book Cumberland River Above Nashville, Tenn written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
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Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Cumberlands River Above Nashville, Tennessee. Hearings on Subject of Improvement of Cumberland River Above Nashville, Tenn written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: