Excavation of Eleven Archaic and Woodland Sites in the Divide-Cut Section of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Tishomingo County, Mississippi

Summary

Eleven aboriginal sites were excavated to mitigate the date loss from the effects of construction in the Divide-Cut Section of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. Site descriptions, field methods employed, and descriptions of material recovered were present. Two contrasting sets of sites based upon two physiographic variables were discussed. Assemblage-level comparisons were made between sites lying North or South of the Tennessee Valley Divide, and between sites located on bottoms or terraces. Results of these comparisons suggest that sites located North or South of the Divide were not significantly different, and sites located on terraces were not oriented more toward lithic tool production than are bottom sites. Temporal utilization, based upon projectile point typology, is shown for the ten sites which yielded projectile points.

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Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District

Principal Investigator(s): Robert M. Thorne

Landowner(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District

Sponsor(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District

Repository(s): University of Georgia, Laboratory of Archaeology, Athens, Georgia

Prepared By(s): University of Mississippi, Center for Archaeological Research

Submitted To(s): US Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District

Record Identifiers

Contract No.(s): DACW-62-76-C-0192

Notes

General Note: The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP) and include the finding aid, original investigation report, oversized material spreadsheet, photographic material spreadsheet, scanned asset key, and select archival photographs. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include additional archival photographs, administrative files, archives database, box inventory, box labels, correspondence, document folder listing, draft record, initial data collection, notes, oversized document labels, photographic materials label, photographic materials spreadsheet, photographic slide labels, and a records removal sheet. For additional information on these materials, refer to the Finding Aid.

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