Western Tennessee (Geographic Keyword)

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EXAMINATION OF BULK SEDIMENT SAMPLES FOR POTENTIALLY RADIOCARBON DATABLE MATERIALS FROM THE PAW PAW TRENCH, OBION COUNTY, TENNESSEE (2017)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik.

The Paw Paw Trench site is situated in Obion County, western Tennessee. Five bulk samples, collected from a paleoseismic trench associated with Reelfoot Fault activity (Ryan Gold, personal communication May 31, 2017), were submitted to recover and identify charred floral material appropriate for AMS radiocarbon age determination.

Learning From (Un)Marked Graves: The Evalutation of Captive and Freed African and African American Mortuary Practices (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Olivia Evans. Jamie Evans. Mary Katherine Brown. Chiara Torrini. Kimberly Kasper.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper investigates the unmarked cemeteries of the captive and emancipated individuals at the Cedar Grove Plantation and surrounding Antebellum plantations in western Tennessee. The previous research conducted at Cedar Grove Plantation by Rhodes College focused on the daily lives and households of the captive African and...