The Arkansas Connection and David G. Anderson

Summary

This is an abstract from the "*SE Big Data and Bigger Questions: Papers in Honor of David G. Anderson" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

From the mouth of the St. Francois River in eastern Arkansas, up along the Ohio River, and northeast to the Varney-culture inhabitants of greater Cahokia, ancestral Quapaw people defined the archaeology of both the central Mississippi River valley and David G. Anderson. Understanding a vast swath of precolonial history across more than 10 centuries necessarily entails big data of a sort sufficient to demonstrate similarities and historical linkages in celestial knowledge, mound construction, and ceramic design and technology. In honor of DGA, we focus our pattern recognition on mollusk shells and pottery temper, lunar alignments, and mound and pottery forms.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• *SE Big Data and Bigger Questions: Papers in Honor of David G. Anderson   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38999.0