Luminescence Dating of Prehistoric Ceramic Vessel Sherds From the North Central Hills of Mississippi
Author(s): Eloise Gadus
Year: 2016
Summary
Data recovery investigations at site 22CH698, located in Choctaw County, Mississippi, employed luminescence dating of ceramic vessel sherds to complement radiocarbon dates and establish cultural stratigraphy within the site’s thick Holocene alluvium. The dating results, along with diagnostic artifacts, indicate that the site components, representing some 2,000 years of occupation, are mixed. Yet the luminescence dates underscore a strong Miller I through Miller III phase occupation (ca. 100 B.C. to A.D. 1100) and demonstrate consistency with dating of the ceramic sequence from the Tombigbee drainage to the east. These results bode well for using luminescence dates to adjust Southeastern chronologies
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Luminescence Dating of Prehistoric Ceramic Vessel Sherds From the North Central Hills of Mississippi. Eloise Gadus. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 403548)
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Keywords
General
Luminescence dating
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Miller phase
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Mississippi
Geographic Keywords
North America - Southeast
Spatial Coverage
min long: -91.274; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -72.642; max lat: 36.386 ;