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 …

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 …

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 …

Bladelets, Blood, and Bones: Integrating Protein Residue, Lithic Use-Wear, and Faunal Data from the Moorehead Circle, Fort Ancient

RV Riordan, GL Miller, AC Stone - American Antiquity, 2023 - cambridge.org
Modified teeth and jaws have long been recognized as important ceremonial objects during
the Middle Woodland period of eastern North America. Direct evidence for the manufacture …

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 …

Cahokia's influence in the Yazoo Basin: a ceramic analysis of Early Mississippian features at the Carson site

CB Antoniuk - Southeastern Archaeology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Ceramic assemblages from pithouses at the Carson site in Mississippi show distinctly
nonlocal trends that indicate Cahokian influence in the region. This study evaluates pottery …

Shell beads from Mississippian sites in the northern Yazoo Basin, Mississippi

JM Connaway - Southeastern Archaeology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, which focuses on the Mississippian period in the northern Yazoo Basin,
Mississippi, I present some interesting findings from research done over the past century. In …

Artifacts and activities associated with mound-area public contexts at the Town Creek site, North Carolina

EA Boudreaux III, DW Armour - Southeastern Archaeology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Attributes of Mississippian public architecture have been used to infer aspects of social
organization and political economy, but the inclusion of artifactual datasets in these …