Mississippian Culture and Cahokian Identities as Considered Through Household Archaeology at Carson, a Monumental Center in North Mississipp

JM Mehta, JM Connaway - Cahokian Dispersions: Diasporic Connections …, 2019 - Springer
The Carson site in northwest Mississippi is a monumental Mississippian center with
evidence of large and small earthen mounds, an extensive palisaded village, and a bundle …

Mound construction and site selection in the Lafourche Subdelta of the Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana, USA

JM Mehta, EL Chamberlain - The Journal of Island and Coastal …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Sediment coring and trench excavation, radiocarbon dating, LiDAR data, and indigenous
material culture are used to evaluate the cultural affiliation of the Grand Caillou earthen …

Geochemical source evaluation of archaeological chert from the Carson mounds site in northwestern Mississippi using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF)

JM Mehta, G McCall, T Marks, J Enloe - Journal of Archaeological Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Lithic artifacts made on Burlington chert from the Carson site in northwest Mississippi were
geochemically measured using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF). Burlington chert is …

Environment, Climate, and Mississippian Origins in the Lower Mississippi Valley and the Mississippi River Delta

JM Mehta, CB Rodning - … the Mississippian Spread: Climate Change and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Lower Mississippi Valley (LMV) and Mississippi River Delta (MRD) are
dramatically impacted by long-term and seasonal fluctuations in water levels, storm cycles …

Regional migration and Cahokian population change in the context of climate change and hydrological events

S Schroeder, AJ White, LR Stevens… - … in the Eastern US (ca. AD …, 2022 - Springer
We explore the population history of Cahokia relative to local and regional climatological
conditions to better understand the factors that may have contributed to the migration of …

Mississippian monumentality in the Yazoo Basin: recent investigations at the Carson site (22CO505), northwestern Mississippi

JM Mehta, RS Evans, Z Shen - Southeastern Archaeology, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Investigations at the Carson site (22CO505), located in Coahoma County, Mississippi, have
uncovered data on the development of a large Mississippian mound center dating to the …

Mound building and summit architecture at the Carson site, a Mississippian mound center in the southeastern United States

JM Mehta - North American Archaeologist, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Significant scholarly attention has been paid to monument construction, craft production, and
leadership strategies in the Mississippian world (AD 1000 to AD 1540) of the Southeastern …

Mississippian craft production in the Yazoo basin: thin-section analysis of a Mississippian structure floor on the summit of mound D at the Carson site

JM Mehta, D Abbott, CD Pevny - Journal of Archaeological Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Mississippian Southeast, little is known about the economy of how craft goods
were produced. Archeologists do understand to a certain degree the organization of …

Above and below the Green Line: a social history of divergent Mississippian cultures

JA Kowalski, ES Nelson - Southeastern Archaeology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A cultural boundary between Late Mississippi period groups has long been
observed in the Yazoo Basin corresponding with the mouth of the Arkansas River. However …

Monument volumes and viewshed analysis at the Carson mounds site (22CO505), Coahoma County, Mississippi

JM Mehta - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
Earthen mound construction is a cultural practice in the American Southeast that has over
5000 years of history. During this time, earthen mounds were variously associated with …