Crossing the Mississippi: A Landscape of First Encounters

Author(s): Jami Lockhart; Timothy Mulvihill

Year: 2019

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeologies of Contact, Colony, and Resistance" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This research comprises a geospatial analysis of Late Mississippian/Protohistoric cultural landscapes in the Aquixo, Casqui, and Pacaha provinces of present-day Arkansas. A GIS-enabled methodology is used to examine the earliest documentary descriptions of the de Soto entrada via reconstructions and interpretations of contemporaneous physical geography, site distributions, and cultural areas informed by an integrated archeological database.

Cite this Record

Crossing the Mississippi: A Landscape of First Encounters. Jami Lockhart, Timothy Mulvihill. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 450985)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -93.735; min lat: 24.847 ; max long: -73.389; max lat: 39.572 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 22840