Some Interesting Facts from the Alabama State Site File

The purpose of this paper is to help the reader understand the general envi-rons of Paleoindian sites in the Middle Tennessee Valley, specifically in Limestone County, Alabama, as well as some of the history surrounding them. It is common knowledge that these sites exist in large numbers and varieties in this area, but little has been written on the subject. It is hoped that by providing this information an interest in the study, excavation, reporting, and preservation of these important sites can be accomplished.

A Phase I Cultural Resources Survey of the Bloucher Ford Preserve, a Historic Rural Community Hub and Mill Site in Madison County, Alabama, 2020

This report is the result of a cultural resources survey conducted for the Land Trust of North Alabama of their Bloucher Ford Preserve. The Preserve was the former location of a grist and saw mill that became the industrial, commercial, and social hub of a small rural community in north Alabama. Extensive archaeological remains were documented including Archaic and Woodland Period prehistoric artifact scatters, remains of the mill and support facilities dating from the early 19th to mid-20th century, historic house sites, and New Deal era public works.

This report details testing on three archaeological sites in 2008. The sites had components as early as the early Archaic Period (ca. 9,500 BP) to as late as ca. A.D. 600. One hearth feature was dated to 4,770 +/- 40 BP. Data from these test excavations was used in interpretation of area history in reports of later excavations and synthesis.

American Antiquity, 1991

Tulane University

This project considers the development of the cultural landscape of Native American chiefdoms in the Yazoo Basin of northwestern Mississippi. Chronicles written by certain members of the Hernando de Soto expedition offer exciting glimpses into the landscape and lifeways of Native American societies in 1541, but they do not shed light on how the landscape of chiefdoms in the Lower Mississippi Valley developed during the period before Spanish contact. This dissertation research focuses on the time period just before Spanish contact, the Mississippi Period (AD 1200-1540), and on Mississippian culture, and it investigates how monuments were built and used in a rapidly changing and dynamic landscape, one in which the meandering and flooding Mississippi river affected the long-term formation of social and political networks. This research relies on environmental, ethnohistoric, and archaeological data to provide a historically contingent description of the processes leading to the development of one of the largest and most important archaeological sites in the region. Sediment cores excavated in mound and offmound contexts suggest the site was constructed over a crevasse splay, a high-elevation landform. Both coring data and trench excavation demonstrate that Mound D, the largest mound at Carson, was built in four stages and that stages II and III were the largest stages. Excavations on Mound D demonstrate that a moderately large-sized structure was once constructed on the southwest corner of the mound summit and that the structure was used to produce craft goods such as shell beads, shell gorgets, and statuary. Data from mound construction and craft production, as well as ethnohistoric and geomorphic research, are used to describe social organization, hierarchy, and leadership at Carson.

Center for Archaeological Studies, University of South Alabama, 2011

An archaeological test excavation of the Webb Site, a part of the Chickasaw complex of settlements named Chokkilissa’ or “Old Town.” The excavation revealed a single component residential site with a summer house, a winter house, and a contemporaneous daub pit. Artifacts indicate the site was occupied between A.D. 1680 and 1760.

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. This content downloaded from 130.160.4.77 on TueABSTRACT Presented in translation is a French document of 1700 pertaining to the Mobile and Tomeh Indians of the northern Gulf Coast of southeastern North America. Ethnographic data from the document receive comment, with emphasis on settlement and subsistence in the Mobile Bay-delta region. In addition, the earliest known French town list of the interior of Alabama is included, with notes on the probable identifications and affiliations of the Indian towns. The purpose here is to call attention to a hitherto much neglected French document concerning two small Indian tribes formerly inhabiting the Mobile Bay-delta region. It is entitled Voyage de M. de Sauvole dufort des Bilochies ou Maurepas aux Thomies, sur la Mobile a trente-six lieues de distance. Depuis le 19 juin 1701, jusqu'en novembre en differentesfois (Paris: Archives de la Marine, 2 JJ 56, No. 16). The manuscript is actually a copy, probably abridged by Claude Delisle, of a journal which, despite the title, was prepared in the year 1700 by Charles Levasseur rather than by his Commandant Sauvole. While brief, Levasseur's journal attains ethnohistorical importance by its inclusion of the earliest detailed French town list of the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa Rive0 area. Further, the notes it contains on the Mobile and Tomeh supplement the sketchy descriptions provided by other early writers. The journal also documents the presence of the Pensacola Indians within the Mobile delta in the year 1700, a little-appreciated fact. The Pensacola, who had shortly before been at war with the Mobile, fled their former home in the early 1690s to relocate, curiously, closer to their old adversaries in the lower portion of the Mobile delta, on the eastern side (Higginbotham 1977:42n). ETHNOHISTORY 28/2 (Spring 198 1) 179 This content downloaded from 130.160.4.77 on Tue

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