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From bitter seeds: a historical anthropological approach to Moundville's origins

Briggs, Rachel Virginia (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Archaeologists have long been aware of the synergistic relationship between maize (or corn) and the development of Mississippian societies (A.D. 1000) within the Southeastern United States. It seems that decades after maize ...
Heterogeneity of early French and native forts, settlements, and villages: a comparison to Fort St. Pierre (1719-1729) in French colonial Louisiane.

Malischke, LisaMarie (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Fort St. Pierre was a French fort built in 1719 along the Yazoo River near modern-day Vicksburg, Mississippi. The area was home to Yazoo, Koroa, and Ofogoula peoples who were being courted by British merchants supplying ...
Hidden in the matrix: using compositional analyses to examine social boundaries at the Chickasawhay Creek sites

Wright, Kevin Pierce (University of Alabama Libraries, 2019)

This research uses compositional analyses to explore eighteenth-century Choctaw social interactions. In this thesis, ceramic artifacts from the Chickasawhay Creek sites (22KE630 and 22KE718) were analyzed using x-ray ...
Negotiating the area between: exploration of an upper creek settlement in the lower Black Warrior river valley

Briggs, Rachel Virginia (University of Alabama Libraries, 2011)

During the 1930s, Dr. Walter B. Jones of the University of Alabama uncovered evidence at the Haney site (1Tu52), near the town of Moundville, Alabama, which indicated an unexpected Native settlement in the lower Black ...
Social houses at Carson Mounds, 22-co-518 as evidenced by dental morphological analysis

James, Jenna (University of Alabama Libraries, 2015)

Social house theory offers an interpretative framework in which to understand the complex social organization of Mississippian era societies. This research focuses on the social organization demonstrated by the secondary ...
The glass site (22wr502): an investigation of Plaquemine culture architecture, occupation, and interaction in the northern portion of the Natchez Bluffs Region, Mississippi

Downs, Lauren Elizabeth (University of Alabama Libraries, 2012)

This dissertation reports the results of a multi-year archaeological study of Plaquemine culture in the Natchez Bluffs region in west-central Mississippi undertaken by the Gulf Coast Survey of the Alabama Museum of Natural ...
The right tool for scoring stress: testing the consistency of two bioarchaeological methods of scoring joint stress, osteoarthritis and entheseal changes, in a north Alabama Native American sample

Edsall, Shannon (University of Alabama Libraries, 2017)

Bioarchaeologists have assumed, with limited evidence, that osteoarthritis (OA) and entheseal changes (EC) develop due to skeletal stress. To test this, the optimal study would compare OA and EC in individuals of known ...
The Terminal Woodland: examining late occupation on mound D at Toltec Mounds (3LN42), Central Arkansas

Alspaugh, Kara Rister (University of Alabama Libraries, 2014)

The Toltec Mounds site (3LN42) (A.D. 700-1050) in central Arkansas has intrigued archaeologists for decades. Although it dates well within the Woodland Period and has many features characteristic of a Woodland Period site, ...
The view from mazique (22ad502): the Coles Creek / Plaquemine cultural transition from the perspective of the Natchez Bluffs region of the Lower Mississippi Valley

LaDu, Daniel Anderson (University of Alabama Libraries, 2016)

At AD 1200, in the wake of the Mississippian florescence, the late Woodland occupants of the Lower Mississippi Valley (LMV) underwent a major reorganization of lifeways. Through the selective adoption of new forms of ...

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