| Description |
1 online resource (xxix, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
"A Dan Josselyn memorial publication." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-260) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction to the Bottle Creek site / Ian W. Brown -- Out of the Moundville shadow: the origin and evolution of Pensacola culture / Richard S. Fuller -- A proposed construction sequence of the mound B terrace at Bottle Creek / David W. Morgan -- Historic aboriginal reuse of a Mississippian mound, mound L at Bottle Creek / Diane E. Silvia -- Food plant remains from excavations in mounds A, B, C, D, and L at Bottle Creek / C. Margaret Scarry -- The use of plants in mound-related activities at Bottle Creek and Moundville / C. Margaret Scarry -- Zooarchaeological remains from Bottle Creek / Irvy R. Quitmyer -- A functional comparison of pottery vessel shapes from Bottle Creek / Hunter B. Johnson -- The Bottle Creek microlithic industry / Paul D. Jackson -- Matting and pliable fabrics from Bottle Creek / Penelope B. Drooker -- Water travel and Mississippian settlement at Bottle Creek / Christopher B. Rodning -- Concluding thoughts on Bottle Creek and its position in the Mississippian world / Ian W. Brown. |
| Summary |
This is the first comprehensive study and analysis of the most important Mississippian mound site on the north-central Gulf coast. Consisting of 18 earthen mounds and numerous additional habitation areas dating to A.D. 1250-1550, the Bottle Creek site was first professionally investigated in 1932 when David L. DeJarnette of the Alabama Museum of Natural History began work there to determine if the site had a cultural relationship with Moundville, connected to the north by a river system. Although partially mapped in the 1880s, Bottle Creek's location in the vast Mobile-Tensaw Delta of Baldwin. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mississippian culture -- Alabama -- Mound Island.
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Mississippian culture. |
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Alabama -- Mound Island. |
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Mississippian pottery -- Alabama -- Mound Island.
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Mississippian pottery. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Alabama -- Mound Island.
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Bottle Creek Site (Ala.)
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Mound Island (Ala.) -- Antiquities.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Brown, Ian W.
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Drooker, Penelope B.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bottle Creek. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2003 0817312196 9780817312190 (DLC) 2002009189 (OCoLC)50043225 |
| ISBN |
9780817381721 (electronic book) |
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0817381724 (electronic book) |
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0817312196 (alkaline paper) |
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081731220X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780817312190 (alkaline paper) |
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9780817312206 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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