Secrets from Within the Shell: Exploring the Differences between Shell-Bearing and Shell-Free Deposits at 40DV307 along the Cumberland River, Tennessee, USA.
Author(s): Stephen Carmody; D. Shane Miller; Thaddeus Bissett; Lydia D. Carmody; David G. Anderson
Year: 2016
Summary
The Bell Site is a multicomponent prehistoric site located along the Cumberland River in Central Tennessee. Archaeological fieldwork conducted in the summer of 2010 and 2012, including riverbank profiling, auger testing, unit excavation, and column sampling, revealed a long and dynamic occupational history of the site. Here, we integrate multiple lines of evidence including paleoethnobotany, zooarchaeology, and geoarchaeology, to unravel the site's complex (pre)history and explore the functional differences between the sites Late Archaic shell midden deposits and the later Woodland-period shell-free settlement deposits.
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Secrets from Within the Shell: Exploring the Differences between Shell-Bearing and Shell-Free Deposits at 40DV307 along the Cumberland River, Tennessee, USA.. Stephen Carmody, D. Shane Miller, Thaddeus Bissett, Lydia D. Carmody, David G. Anderson. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 403959)
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Keywords
General
Geoarchaeology
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Paleoethnobotany
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Shell Middens
Geographic Keywords
North America - Southeast
Spatial Coverage
min long: -91.274; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -72.642; max lat: 36.386 ;