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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
ES Nelson, A Peles, MA Melton - Southeastern Archaeology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Communal eating events or feasts were important activities associated with the founding and maintenance of Mississippian communities in the southeastern United States. More …
Native American societies in the Yazoo Basin during the Mississippian Period (ca. 1000– 1700 AD) extensively built platform mounds often associated with “elite” or “sacred” areas …
CB Rodning, JM Mehta - Historical ecologies, heterarchies and …, 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter considers evidence about hierarchy and heterarchy in Native American landscape and society in the Yazoo Basin of northwestern Mississippi and the 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 …