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Mid-South Archaeological Conference

1969-1994 portions compiled by Mary L. Kwas and reproduced in modified form from Twenty-Five Years of the Mid-South Archaeological Conference: A Souvenir Program, edited by Mary L. Kwaas. 1994. 1995-2003 portions compiled by Kevin E. Smith

Round-table discussions; no formal papers.

Publication:Transcript.

New Techniques and Miscellaneous Session

• Lynne Bowers -- Cypress Dendrochronology
• Roger T. Saucier -- Recent Development in Geological Interpretations of the Mississippi Valley
• Alan Donn -- Archaeomagnetic Dating
• Carl H. Chapman -- Soil Probing
• Cynthia J. Weber -- Dating Poverty Point Objects by Thermoluminescence
• Hester A. Davis -- New Legislation
• Gregory Perino -- Blade Core and Preform Abraders
• Chester North -- Atomic Absorbtion
• Ervan Garrison -- Fission Track Dating of Pottery
• Richard A. Marshall -- The New Fortunes of Mississippi State

Powers Phase Session

• James B. Griffin -- Application of the Powers Phase Study to the Archeology of the Mississippi Valley
• James E. Price -- A Survey of the Powers Phase Settlement Pattern
• Suzanne E. Harris -- Ethnobotany of the Powers Phase
• Wilma Kosnik -- Late Winter Diet and Ecological Indications of a Dietary Deficiency
• Rand Miller -- Site Size and Subsistence Sphere
• Richard Zurel -- Excavation of a Mississippian Hunting Camp
• Dan F. Morse and Larry D. Medford -- The Value of the Powers Phase as a Model for Mississippi Settlement Pattern in N.E. Arkansas
• Jon D. Muller -- The View from Kincaid
• Jeffrey P. Brain, Robert S. Neitzel, and John S. Belmont -- The Ethnosquatting and Archeohunkering Hypothesis: A Case Study
• James B. Griffin -- Recent Decisions on the Sequence at Cahokia

Paleo-Indian and Poverty Point Session

• Dan F. Morse -- The Brand Site: Indications for Paleo-Indian Occupation of the Valley
• Clarence H. Webb -- The John Pierce Site: An Example of San Patrice in Louisiana
• Clarence H. Webb -- What Is and What Isn't "Poverty Point"
• Samuel O. McGahey -- The Denton Site, Quitman Co., Mississippi
• Gerald P. Smith -- New Evidence from Tennessee
• Larry D. Medford -- Stone Beads: Local Chert or Trade?

Publication: None.

Social Activities: Three times the number of people expected showed up for the second Mid-South conference, contributing to an event best explained in the words of Dan Morse:

"The highlight of the Saturday session was an unannounced (even to us!) dramatization by Stu Neitzel and John Belmont, narrated by Jeffrey Brain. When excavating the Brand site, I mailed progress reports which referenced the recognition of squatting area s (later edited by Phyllis to working areas). So Stu and John and Jeff (mostly Jeff I expect) decided to present a 'Ethnosquatting and Archeohunkering hypothesis.' The first act was two good old boys meeting each other and squatting briefly to talk and w hittle. The second act was too good old boys meeting and squatting briefly to break rock and talk. The spectacle of the 'Little John (with an elk baton) and Big Stu' show was absolutely hilarious and emphasized the informal nature of the meeting.

"That evening we barbequed 50 chickens over a pit prepared the day before in our backyard. We had stockpiled several cases of beer (Craighead County is 'dry') and many participants brought their own favorite beverages with them. We did not charge a regi stration fee, known as southern hospitality. Jimmy Griffin, as usual, identified potsherds for some of the serious participants."

From: The Tchula Period in the Mid-South and Lower Mississippi Valley, edited by David H. Dye and Ronald C. Brister, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archaeological Report No. 17, Jackson, Mississippi, 1986.

• James B. Griffin -- Introduction
• James B. Stoltman -- Preliminary Results of Petrographic Thin Section Analysis of Tchula Period Ceramics from the Lower Mississippi Valley in Contrast to Ceramic Artifacts from the Poverty Point Site
• Thomas E. Emerson -- The Early Woodland Florence Phase: Mid-South Influences in the American Bottoms, Illinois
• James E. Price -- Tchula Period Occupancy along the Ozark Border in Southeastern Missouri
• Dan F. Morse -- the McCarty Site: A Tchula Period Occupation in Northeastern Arkansas
• Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. -- Tchula/Miller I: A Perspective from Pinson Mounds
• Martha A. Rolingson and Marvin D. Jeter -- Tchula Period Sites in Southeastern Arkansas
• Samuel O. Brookes and Cheryl Taylor -- Tchula Period Ceramics in the Upper-Sunflower Region
• Ned J. Jenkins -- The Wheeler Series: Space, Time, and External Relationships
• Richard A. Marshall -- Comments on Geomorphological Implications on the Development of Late Tchula/Early Marksville Settlement in the Upper Yazoo Basin
• David H. Dye and Jerry R. Galm -- Tchefuncte, Alexander, and Black Sand: An Early Gulf Tradition in the Mississippi Valley
• Richard A. Weinstein -- Tchefuncte Occupation in the Lower Mississippi Delta and Adjacent Coastal Zone
• Stephen Williams -- Some Terminal Reflections on Early Pottery in the Lower Mississippi Valley

Publication: The Tchula Period in the Mid-South and Lower Mississippi Valley, edited by David H. Dye and Ronald C. Brister, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archaeological Reports No. 17, Jackson, Mississippi, 1986.

Social Activities: A reception was held after the conference.

• Leonard W. Blake -- Corn and Other Plants from Prehistory into History in Eastern United States
• Patricia K. Galloway -- Protohistoric Extrapolation from Early Historic Documents and Archaeological Evidence: The Ethnohistorian's View
• Michael P. Hoffman -- Protohistory of the Lower and Central Arkansas River Valley in Arkansas
• Marvin D. Jeter -- Tunicans West of the Mississippi: A Summary of Early Historic and Archaeological Evidence
• R. Barry Lewis -- Astragali Dice: Early 16th Century Horizon Markers in the Mid-South
• Richard A. Marshall -- The Protohistoric Component at the Lyon's Bluff Site Complex, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi
• Dan F. Morse -- Hunting Activity in the Nodena Phase
• James E. Price -- The Protohistoric Period in Southeastern Missouri
• Craig T. Sheldon, Jr. and Ned J. Jenkins -- Protohistoric Development in Central Alabama
• John D. Stuffs, Jr. -- Archaeological Survey in Lee County, Mississippi
• Christopher S. Peebles -- Discussant

Publication: The Protohistoric Period in the Mid-South: 1500-1700, edited by David H. Dye and Ronald C. Brister, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archaeological Report No. 18, Jackson, Mississippi, 1986.

Social Activities: A reception was held after the conference.

• R. Berle Clay -- Peter Village and Its Implications
• Jon L. Gibson and J. Richard Shenkel -- Louisiana Earthworks: Middle Woodland and its Predecessors
• Bruce D. Smith -- Early Chenopodium from Russell Cave
• Gary D. Crites -- Middle Woodland Paleoethnobotany of the Eastern Highland Rim
• Gerald P. Smith -- Middle Woodland Settlement Patterns in West Tennessee
• John White -- Spatial Relationships in the Kamp Mound Group
• Robert L. Thunen -- Symbolic Organization of Ceremonial Centers
• Mary L. Kwas and Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. -- The Johnston Site: Precursor to Pinson Mounds?
• Janet E. Rafferty -- The Ingomar Mounds Site
• Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. -- Pinson Mounds: Summary of Research through 1983
• Ned J. Jenkins -- Relationships between Pinson, Ingomar, Twin Lakes, etc.
• David S. Brose -- Seeing the Mid-South and LMV from the Southeast
• Stephen Williams -- A View from the Lower Valley
• N'omi M.B. Greber -- Possible Mid-South Origins of Seip Artifacts
• W. Bacon -- North American Panpipes
• Janet L. Ford -- Histology of the Twin Lakes Phase
• Dan F. Morse -- Keller Site
• Richard A. Marshall -- The Burial Pattern in Story Mound I
• Eugene M. Futato -- The Lick Creek Phase
• Jay K. Johnson -- Woodland Settlement in Northeast Mississippi: The Miller Tradition
• Charles H. Faulkner -- Middle Woodland Community and Settlement Patterns on the Eastern Highland Rim, Tennessee
• David H. Dye and John A. Walthall -- The Savannah Mounds
• Craig T. Sheldon, Jr. -- Claiborne Complex
• Jerald T. Milanich -- Weeden Island: The View from North Florida
• James B. Griffin -- Overview

Publication: Middle Woodland Settlement and Ceremonialism in the Mid-South and Lower Mississippi Valley, edited by Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archaeological Report No. 22, Jackson, Mississippi, 1988

Social Activities : A barbeque lunch was held at the Pinson Mounds picnic shelter, followed by an evening reception at the Jackson Holiday Inn, sponsored by the Lower Mississippi Valley Survey.

There was a premier showing of the public education film "The Ritual of the Mounds" and a guided tour of the Pinson Mounds site. Artifacts from the site were also available for viewing in the lab.

• Charles Wax -- Climatic Change and Climatic Variability in the Southeast
• Paula G. Cross -- On Mississippian Hunting Practices
• George Avery -- The Use of Salt in Shell-Tempered Pottery: An Examination Through Replication Experiments
• Robert C. Wilson and Marvin T. Smith -- The French Site (22HO565/19P10), Evidence of Emergent Mississippian Culture in the Yazoo Valley
• Jay K. Johnson and James R. Atkinson -- New Data on the Thelma Mound Group in Northeast Mississippi
• Jon L. Gibson -- Punctuating Lower Mississippi Valley Culture History: A Hyphen or a Culture Period Between Troyville and Coles Creek
• Richard A. Weinstein -- Developmental and Regional Variations in Early to Mid Plaquemine in South Louisiana
• Martha A. Rolingson -- An Assessment of the Significance of Clay-Tempered Ceramics and Temple Mounds at the Toltec Mounds Site
• Dan F. Morse -- The Zebree Site
• Elizabeth B. Garland -- The Obion Site
• Gerald F. Schroedl and C. Clifford Boyd -- Mississippian Origins in East Tennessee
• Kit W. Wesler -- Early Mississippian at Wickliffe Mounds
• James E. Price and Stephen Williams -- The Varney Tradition: And Other Mysteries Revealed
• John E. Kelly -- Emergent Mississippian and the Transition from Late Woodland to Mississippian: The American Bottom Case for a New Concept
• Thomas E. Emerson and Douglas Jackson -- The Edelhardt and Lindeman Phases: Setting the State for the Final Mississippian Transition in the American Bottom
• George R. Milner -- The Emergent Mississippian to Mississippian Period Transition in the American Bottom, Illinois
• John E. Kelly -- The Range Site: Implications for the Emergence of Middle Mississippi Culture in the American Bottom
• Robert L. Hall -- A Critique of the Time-Frame for the Mississippian Emergence in the Cahokia Area
• Richard S. Fuller -- The Persistence of Woodland Culture in Southwestern Alabama during the Early Mississippian Period
• Ned J. Jenkins -- An Overview of Early Mississippian in Alabama
• M. Cassandra Hill -- Worlds in Collision: A Biocultural Examination of the Woodland/Mississippian Transition in Central Alabama

Publication: The Emergent Mississippian, edited by Richard A. Marshall, Mississippi State University, Cobb Institute of Archaeology, Occasional Papers 87-01, Mississippi State, Mississippi, 1987.

Social Activities: A Friday evening Beer Social was held at the University Inn, followed by a Barbecue L'Affaire at the VFW Hut on Old West Point Road.

• Don G. Wyckoff -- Glimpses of the Dalton Complex in Eastern Oklahoma
• Timothy K. Perttula, et al -- Past Environments and Paleoindian Occupations at McGee Creek, Southeast Oklahoma
• Roger T. Saucier -- Geomorphology of the Bouef and Tensas Basins
• Mitchell Hillman -- Paleoindian Settlement on the Macon Ridge, Northeastern Louisiana
• Jon Gibson -- Paleoindian-Epipaleoindian Transition Along the Western Edge of the Lower Mississippi Valley
• Carey Geiger -- A Variety of San Patrice Projectile Point/Knife from South Mississippi
• Dan F. Morse -- the Sloan Site: A Dalton Cemetery in Arkansas
• Gregory A. Waselkov and Sid Hite -- Paleo-Indians in the Central Tennessee Valley
• I. Randolph Daniel and Michael Wisenbaker -- Paleo-Indian in Central Florida
• Charles Hubbert -- Paleo-Indian in Alabama
• Samuel O. McGahey -- Implication of Chronological and Geographical Distribution of Exotic Lithic Raw Material in the Paleo-Indian Period in Mississippi
• Samuel of Brookes -- Paleo-Indian Projectile Point Form and Function

Publication: None.

Social Activities: A Friday night reception was kicked off with a cash bar at the Briars Bar, located behind the Ramada Inn and with a terrific view of the Mississippi River.

After the Saturday papers, there was a guided tour of the Fatherland Site. Participants regrouped for Deep South hospitality and mint juleps at historic Longwood. According to Sam Brookes, events at Longwood went as follows:

"One of the attractions of the Natchez meeting was a tour of Longwood, the largest octagonal house in the country. As an additional treat I negotiated to have the docents serve mint juleps. I was able to negotiate two juleps apiece for a very modest price. After this marvelous concoction, we were able to take the house tour. This involved climbing several flights of stairs in the house. At least one of the group was unable to climb the stairs -- a tribute to the ladies of Natchez and the potency of their juleps."

Dinner followed the Longwood tour, with catfish, slaw, and hushpuppies served at the Sandbar Restaurant in Vidalia, Louisiana.

NOTE: In 1987, the eighth Mid-South Archaeological Conference stumbled a bit: organizers, participants, and audience that were contacted seemed to have deleted this experience from their memories and only fuzzy recollections remain.

According to the program, only four papers were scheduled, but it is believed that only three were actually given. To fill out the remaining time, Stephen Williams graciously led a discussion of the Vacant Quarter hypothesis on a region by region basis. It is believed the program went as follows:

• Dan F. Morse -- The 17th Century Michigamea Village Location in Arkansas
• Tristram R. Kidder -- The Koroa Indians of the Lower Mississippi Valley: An Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Reconstruction
• James R. Atkinson -- The Chickasaw During the Colonial Period
• Stephen Williams -- A Discussion of the "Vacant Quarter"

Publication: None

Social Activities: There was a party at Charles McNutt's house following the conference.

• Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. -- Recent Investigations in the Reelfoot Lake Basin, Tennessee
• Charles H. McNutt -- A Ceramic Sequence from Chucalissa (40SY1), Shelby County, Tennessee
• George R. Holley -- Ceramic Production and Exchange in the American Bottom: Problems and Prospects
• Charles B. Stout -- Patterns, Patterns, Patterns: The Occurrence of Late Woodland and Mississippian Types Across the Adams Site Surface
• Charles H. McNutt and David H. Dye -- Indices for the Measurement of Whole Vessels
• Michael L. Hargrave -- A Functional Perspective on an Emergent Mississippian Ceramic Assemblage
• David H. Dye -- Functional Analysis of Protohistoric Ceramics from the Belle Meade Site (3CT30)
• Michael P. Hoffman -- A Comparison of Terminal Mississippian Period Ceramics of the Central and Lower Arkansas River Valley with Those of Northeastern Arkansas
• Duane Esarey -- Negative Painted Pottery of the Illinois River Valley
• John E. Kelly -- The Archaeological and Cultural Basis for Cultural Exchange in the American Bottom During the Emergent Mississippian and Mississippian
• Stephen Williams -- Crossing the Vacant Quarter: Some Tentative Footsteps from the Lower Valley

Publication: None

Social Activities: A barbeque dinner and open house was held at the Wickliffe Mounds Research Center in Wickliffe, Kentucky.

Participants were encouraged to bring representative samples of ceramics from Mississippian sites currently being investigated. Before and after papers, there was considerable informal discussion of the numerous collections displayed.

• Stephen Williams -- Where is the Archaic?
• Roger T. Saucier -- Have You Seen Any Good Archaic Earthquake Cracks Lately?
• Thomas E. Emerson, Joyce Williams, and Paula G. Cross -- Late Archaic Cultures on the Northern Periphery of the Mid-South
• R. Michael Gramly -- Review of Discoveries at the Olive Branch Site, Alexander County, Illinois, Southern Illinois
• Jefferson Chapman -- Archaic Burial Practices in East Tennessee
• Shari D. Moore -- Limited Testing on Site 40MY105, A Multi-Component Accretionary Mound, McNairy County, Tennessee
• Gerald P. Smith -- A Review of the Archaic in West Tennessee
• Dan F. Morse -- Two Unfinished Atlatl Weights from Arkansas
• Cheryl P. Claassen -- New Hypotheses for the Demise of the Shellmound Archaic

Publication: The Archaic Period in the Mid-South, edited by Charles H. McNutt, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archaeological Report No. 24, Jackson, Mississippi, and Memphis State University, Anthropological Research Center , Occasional Papers No. 16, Memphis, Tennessee, 1991

Social Activities: An after-dinner party was held at Camille Wharey's house. On Sunday, a field trip to view the excavation of Ozier Mound (Mound 30) at Pinson Mounds was offered, hosted by Robert Mainfort and Rick Walling. Materials from Pinson Mounds and various other sites in western Tennessee were also made available for viewing.

• Michael S. Nassaney -- A Chronological Framework for Prehistoric Earthwork Construction in Central Arkansas
• Richard A. Krause -- Artifacts, Features and Associations: Observations on the Excavation of a Mississippian Mound
• Jon L. Gibson -- Poverty Point Earthworks: A Tale of Loess and Ambition in the Louisiana Delta
• Janet L. Ford -- Little Spring Creek Mound Alexander Ceremonialism? Part Two
• Charles H. Faulkner -- The Old Stone Fort Revisited: New Clues to an Old Mystery
• Keith A. Baca and Evan Peacock -- The Brogan Mounds: A Middle Woodland Site in Clay County, Mississippi
• Robert L. Thunen -- Pinson Mounds: Recent Investigations at Mound 30
• Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. -- Some Comments on Middle Woodland Mortuary Practices in the Mid-South
• Richard Walling -- Pinson Mounds: Ozier Mound, Interpreting the Results of the 1989 Investigations
• Vernon J. Knight, Jr. -- "Kolomoki Pattern" Platform Mounds
• Stephen Williams -- Mounds and Embankments in Historical Perspective
• Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. (moderator) -- Open discussion of pre-Mississippian platform mounds
• Frank F. Schambach -- Mounds, Embankments, and Ceremonialism in the Trans-Mississippi South
• William L. Lawrence -- A Mississippian Structure from the Bryant Mound, 40LK1, Lake County, Tennessee
• Elizabeth B. Garland -- Some Observations on Ceremonialism at the Obion Site
• James E. Price -- The Excavations at Mound 2, Towosahgy State Historic Site, Mississippi County, Missouri
• Gregory L. Fox -- Excavation of a Segment of the Northern Fortification System, Towosahgy State Historic Site (23MI2), Mississippi County, Missouri
• Camille Wharey and Mitchell R. Childress -- Unit 4 Excavations at the Chucalissa Site, 1960-67
• Kit W. Wesler -- An Elite Burial Mound at Wickliffe?
• C. Andrew Buchner -- Mound Excavations at the West Mounds Site

Publication: Mounds, Embankments, and Ceremonialism in the Midsouth, edited by Robert C. Mainfort Jr. and Richard Walling, Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series No. 46, Fayetteville, 1996

Social Activities: There was a Friday evening informal gathering at the Madison Room of the Jackson Holiday Inn and a Saturday evening reception in the same location. A barbecue lunch was catered in to Pinson Mounds on both days of the conference .

Tours of the Pinson Mounds site, museum, and lab were also conducted.

• Noel R. Stowe -- The Gulf Formational Stage on the North Central Gulf Coast
• Geoffrey R. Lehmann, M. Cassandra Hill, and Carey L. Geiger -- The Gulf Formational Stage on the Mississippi Gulf Coast: Evidence from the Greenwood Island Site (22JA516)
• John W. O'Hear -- Recent Research on Wheeler and Alexander in the Tombigbee Valley
• Richard Walling -- The Late Gulf Formational in the Middle Coosa River Valley of East Alabama
• Eugene M. Futato -- Lithic Resources and Late Archaic Settlement Patterns in the Western Middle Tennessee Valley
• Charles H. Faulkner -- Terminal Archaic-Early Woodland Community Patterns in the Eastern Highland Rim of Tennessee
• Gary D. Crites -- Plant Domestication and Food Production: The Archaic-Woodland Continuum in Middle Tennessee

Publication: In press

Social Activities: A Friday evening reception was held at the University Inn. An open house at Cobb Institute of Archaeology was held Saturday afternoon, followed by a Saturday evening barbecue dinner at Dorman Lake.

• Kenneth H. Carleton -- Analysis and Classification of Choctaw Ceramics
• Janet E. Rafferty -- A Seriation of Chickasaw Pottery from Northeast Mississippi
• Richard S. Fuller -- An Early 19th Century Assemblage from Ft. Stoddard, Alabama
• John W. Cottier and Craig T. Sheldon, Jr. -- Recent Research in Creek Archaeology
• Diana E. Silvia -- Archaeological Investigations at Hickory Ground, Alabama
• Marvin T. Smith -- Woods Island Revisited
• Philip Koerper -- The Battle of Tallasseehatchee
• Richard A. Marshall -- The Starkville Complex and Chakchiuma
• John W. O'Hear -- Survey and Excavations in the Choctaw Homeland, 1983-1985
• John D. Stubbs Jr. -- Chickasaw Settlement Patterns in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
• Jay K. Johnson -- Chickasaw Ethnohistory and Its Archaeological Correlates
• David H. Dye and Scott Shaffer -- Changing Patterns of Chickasaw Warfare
• George Riser -- Crawfish and Shrimp Procurement in Historic Times
• Tim Mooney -- Choctaw Culture Compromise and Change from the Mid-18th Century to the Early 19th Century
• Stephen Williams -- Choctaws and Chickasaws in the Yazoo Basin
• Gregory A. Waselkov -- English and American Trade with the Southeastern Indians, 1700-1800
• Roundtable Discussion: Historic Native Americans in the Lower Mississippi Valley

Publication: None

Social Activities : A Friday evening reception was held at the Holiday Inn, and a Saturday evening barbecue dinner was held at Moundville.

There was an open house at the DeJarnette Laboratory of Archaeology, including tours of the Erskine Ramsay Archaeological Repository, and participants could also tour the museum and site.

• Joe Sanders and Thurman Allen -- Archaic Mound Research in Northeastern Louisiana
• Keith A. Baca -- Test Excavations of a Pre-Mississippian Platform Mound in the North Central Hills of Mississippi
• Janet E. Rafferty -- Excavations at Owl Creek Mounds (22CS502), Chickasaw County, Mississippi
• Jeffrey M. Mitchem -- Mississippian Research at Parkin Archeological State Park
• Kenneth K. Carleton -- Excavations at Two Mid-Eighteenth Century Choctaw Sites in Kemper County, Mississippi
• Janet L. Ford -- Treasures of the Walton-Young House Plus
• Jean Allan -- Fortifications at Moundville
• Samuel D. Smith -- Research on Tennessee's Early Federal Military Sites
• Samuel O. Brookes -- Stone Effigy Beads: An Index Artifact for the Middle Archaic
• Kit W. Wesler -- Marine Shell Gorgets awt Wickliffe Mounds
• David H. Dye -- An Engraved Bottle from the Walls Site
• John B. Broster, Mark R. Norton, Dennis J. Stanford, C. Vance Haynes Jr., and Margaret A. Jodry -- Stratified Fluted Point Deposits in the Western Valley of Tennessee
• Lawrence Alexander -- Archaeological Investigations in the Late Mississippian Settlements at Moccasin Bend, Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Evan Peacock -- Tchula Period Sites in the Holly Springs National Forest, North Central Mississippi
• Kevin E. Smith and Michael C. Moore -- Searching for the "Little People": Mississippian Farmsteads and Hamlets in North Central Tennessee
• Guy G. Weaver -- The Gowen Farmstead: Patterns of Ethnicity and Class Structure at an Antebellum Plantation, Nashville, Tennessee
• James R. Atkinson -- Pilgrim Bayou: An Early Contact Natchez Site on the Natchez Trace Parkway
• Noel R. Stowe and Rebecca N. Lumpkin -- Archaeological Research on the North-Central Gulf Coast

Publication: Proceedings of the 14th Annual Mid-South Archaeological Conference, edited by Richard Walling, Camille Wharey and Camille Stanley, Panamerican Consultants, Inc., Special Publications 1, Memphis. 1996.

Social Activities: There was a Friday evening cash bar reception at the Best Western Riverbluff Inn. A barbecue lunch was held on the Chucalissa grounds on Saturday, followed by an evening party at Camille Wharey's house.

• Kevin E. Smith -- Bringing to Light our Ancient Remains: The Contributions of Tennessee's Antiquarian Archaeologists
• Jeffrey M. Mitchem and Timoty S. Mulvihill -- The History of Archaoelogy at Parkin Phase Sites in Northeast Arkansas
• Robert C. Mainfort, Jr. -- Late Period Phases in the Central Mississippi Valley: A Cluster Analytic Approach
• Samuel O. Brookes, John M. Connaway, and Samuel O. McGahey -- A Review of Activities by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
• Martha A. Rolingson -- Twenty-five Years of Archaeology in Southeastern Arkansas
• Stephen R. James, Jr. -- Flatboats to Side-Wheelers: Rivercraft in Archaeology
• Dan F. Morse and Phyllis Morse -- A Quarter of a Century in Northeast Arkansas
• Robert C. Mainfort Jr. And William L. Lawrence -- Emergent Mississippian in the Reelfoot Lake Basin: Excavations at the Oliver Site, Obion County, Tennessee
• Janet L. Ford -- Early Woodland: Coming of Age in Northwest Mississippi
• John H. House -- Quapaw Archaeology After Ford
• Jimmy D. McNeil -- Twenty-Five Years of Corps of Engineers Archaeology?Cultural Resources Management in the Memphis District
• John B. Broster, Mark R. Norton, and Emanuel Breitburg -- Forty Years of Paleoindian Studies in Tennessee: Adrift in a Muddied Sea
• Jamie C. Brandon -- Textile Impressed Ceramics from the Oliver Site (40OB161), Obion County, Tennessee
• James A. Marshall -- Evidence for Knowledge and Use of the Concept of Pi in the Prehistoric Geometric Earthworks
• Shawn Chapman and Richard Walling -- Back to the Basin: Intensive Survey of the Sunflower River Within the Lower Yazoo Basin
• Evan Peacock -- Twenty-Five years of Cultural Resources Management in the National Forests of Mississippi
• H. Blaine Ensor -- An Historical Overview of Archaeology in the Middle Tennessee River Valley of Northern Alabama

Publication: None planned

Social activities: The 25th anniversary conference was kicked off with a Friday night get-together at Camille Wharey's house. A Grilled Hot Dog Picnic was served for Saturday lunch on the Chucalissa grounds. The Saturday evening barbecue dinner and reception was held on the grounds of the National Ornamental Metal Museum, located across the street from DeSoto Park Mounds, and with a magnificent view of the Mississippi River. There was a Saturday afternoon field trip to Parkin Archeological State Park led by Jeffrey Mitchem.

• Read Stowe and Rebecca N. Lumpkin -- Lithic Sources Utilized by Aboriginal Inhabitants on the North-Central Gulf Coast
• Samuel O. McGahey -- Apparent Preferential Use and Avoidance of Kosciusko Quartzite in Prehistoric Mississippi
• Sam Brookes -- Prehistoric Exchange in Mississippi
• Scott Meeks -- The "Function" of Stone Tools in Prehistoric Exchange Systems: A Look at Benton Interaction in the Midsouth
• Timothy P. Phillips -- A Study of Lithic Material Distributions within the Artifact Assemblages of Aboriginal Sites on the Kisatchie National Forest
• Anthony Boudreaux -- Lithic Tools and Debitage from the Claiborne Site, Hancock County, Mississippi
• Jon Gibson -- The Swap Shop: Macon Ridge and Upper Tensas Swamp During Poverty Point Times
• Michael R. Finn -- Some Social Implications of the Poverty Point Acquisition and Exchange Network: A View from the Alabama Hinterland
• Roger T. Saucier -- A Postulated "Lost River System" in Southeastern Arkansas and Northeastern Louisiana -- A Factor in Prehistoric Exchange?
• Martha A. Rolingson and J. Michael Howard -- Igneous Rocks of Central Arkansas and their Distribuiton in the Mid-South
• Mitch Childress -- The Evidence for Terminal Archaic-Early Woodland Exchange from the Upper Cumberland Drainage of Tennessee
• Kevin E. Smith and Michael C. Moore -- Through Many Mississippian Hands: A View of Exchange Networks from the Cumberland Valley of Tennessee
• Vincas P. Steponaitis -- Investigating Trade in Mississippian Pots
• James R. Atkinson -- An Early Contact Natchez Site on the Natchez Trace Parkway
• Ian Brown -- Contact, Communication and Exchange: Some Thoughts on the Rapid Movement of Objects
• Stephen Williams -- Trans-America Interactions: Networking from Clovis to Conquest and After (A View from the Yazoo)

Publication: In press.

Social activities: A tour of the Choctaw Agency Site was provided on Saturday afternoon.

• Jean Allan -- Rock Art and the Southern Cult in North Alabama
• Robyn Astin -- Mound M: Chronology and Function at Moundville
• John Kelly and Brad Koldehoff -- The Nature and Context of the Mississippian Occupation on Cahokia's Western Periphery; the Fingerhut and Powell Tracts
• Larissa Thomas, Brian Butler, and Charles Cobb -- Exploring Production for Exchange and Household Production at the Dillow's Ridge Site
• Harold Smith -- Small Upland Mississippian Sites in the Western Coalfields of Kentucky: Site Function, Chronology, and Settlement Patterns
• Kevin Smith -- The Middle Cumberland Diaspora: The Vacant Quarter and Other Late Events in the Nashville Basin of Tennessee
• Dan S. Allen -- Middle Cumberland Mortuary Patterning at Travellers Rest (40Dv11), Davidson County, Tennessee: A Comparative Analysis
• William Lawrence -- An Armorel Phase Structure from the Otto Sharpe Site, Lake County, Tennessee
• John House -- Kuykendall Brake: A Window into the End of Prehistory in Central Arkansas
• Jimmy McNeil -- Corps of Engineers Archaeology/Cultural Resources Management in the Memphis District (1969-1995)
• Mary Evelyn Starr -- Investigations at Ellis Mound and other Phillips County, Arkansas, Mississippian Sites
• Dan and Phyllis Morse -- New Discoveries in Northeastern Arkansas
• Mitchell Childress -- Prehistoric Archaeology in the Memphis Area: A Summary of Recent Work
• Robert H. Lafferty, III -- Recent Archeological Excavations in the New Madrid Floodway and New Madrid Seismic Zone
• Richard Stallings -- Archaeological Predictive Modeling in the Northeastern Yazoo Basin, Mississippi
• Gerald P. Smith -- Late Archaic Structures in the Midsouth
• Tad Britt and Edwin Roemer -- Preaching to the Choir: The Vicksburg Corps of Engineers' Role and Contributions to Archaeology in the Lower Mississippi Valley
• Roger T. Saucier -- Geomorphic Processes Affecting the Upper Sunflower River Drainage and the Oliver Site Locale, Yazoo Basin, Mississippi
• Stephen Williams -- Keepers of the Past: New Perspectives on Old Traditionalists
• Evan Peacock -- Current and Future Directions in Freshwater Bivalve Analysis in Archaeology
• Nancy Ross-Stallings -- Treponemal Syndrome in the Mississippi Delta Revisited: a Case from the Barner Site (22-CO-542) and a probable case of Congenital Treponemal Syndrome from the Austin Site (22-TU-549)
• Patrick Garrow -- Archaeological Investigations of the Courthouse Block, Knoxville, Tennessee
• Sam Brookes -- Aspects of the Middle Archaic
• Richard Walling, Shawn Chapman, and C. Andrew Buchner -- Middle Archaic in the Big Sunflower River Watershed
• Ken Carleton -- Rediscovery of a Fragment of the Earthwork at Nanih Waiya Mound (22WI500), Winston County, Mississippi
• Guy Weaver -- the Cobblestone Landing at Memphis.

Publication: In progress.

Social activities: A Friday night reception was hosted by Panamerican Consultants. A Saturday pizza buffet at Garibaldi's. A Saturday night Bar-B-Que dinner and party at the home of Camille Wharey and Rick Walling.

Session I: Native American Reaction to Archaeology in the Mid-South

• Paul Austin -- Introduction
• John Thomas -- Becoming An Archaeologist
• Kenneth Carleton -- The Choctaw
• Bill Day -- The Tunica-Biloxi
• The Quapaw -- Carrie Wilson

Session II: History of Archaeology in the Mid-South

• Judith Knight -- Publications
• Mary Kwas -- Parks and Museums
• Martha Rolingson -- Women in Mid-South Archaeology
• C.R. (Bob) McGimsey -- Federal Archeology
• Roger Saucier -- Geoarchaeology
• Dan Morse -- Paleo-Indian Studies
• Robert Mainfort -- The Recognition of Woodland
• Vernon (Jim) Knight -- DeSoto Studies
• Leslie (Skip) Stewart-Abernathy -- Arkansas Archeological Survey
• Marvin Jeter -- Palmer
• Sam Brooks -- CB Moore
• John Kelly -- Focus on Cahokia
• Stephen Williams -- LMS and Comments

Session III: Current Research in the Mid-South

• Charles McNutt -- Julius Augustus Davies, M.D., An Early Contributor to Mississippi Archaeology
• Mark Rees -- Protohistoric Archaeology in the Central Mississippi Valley: Contributions of the Lower Mississippi Archaeological Survey
• Mike Ruddell -- Paleoindian Subsistence in the Mid-South: Stone and Maybe Bones
• Rita Carroll -- Mortuary Patterning at the Upper Nodena Site
• Kevin Smith -- Mississippi Stone Statuary
• Carl Lipo -- ?
• Phyllis Morse -- ?

Publication: None planned.

Social Activities: Dinner party at the Morses Saturday evening. Tours of the Sloan Site exhibit. Paleolama mirifica skeleton.

Morning Session In Honor of Dr. Charles H. McNutt

• Mary Evelyn Starr and Jamie Brandon – “The Irby Site (22Ds516): Investigations at a Walls Phase Site in Northern Mississippi”
• Mary Evelyn Starr – “CRM’s Contribution to Mississippian Studies in the Southern Central Mississippi Valley”
• Guy G. Weaver – “Historical Archaeology in the Mid-South: Truth at the Bottom of a Well?”
• C. Andrew Buchner and Eric A. Albertson – “Modeling Mississippian Settlement Patterns: An Example from the Little River Lowlands”
• Gerald P. Smith – “Site 40FY13 and its Position in the Late and Terminal Archaic Settlement Pattern of the Loosahatchie Drainage of Western Tennessee”
  

Afternoon Session

• Erwin Roemer – “The Changing Face of Consultation on Cultural Resources Issues”
• Stephanie L. Perrault and Richard A. Weinstein – “Recent Archaeological Investigations at the Law Mounds, Washington County, Mississippi
• Kitty Roberts – “Recent Research on the Coles Creek Period in the Tensas Basin”
• Douglas S. Frink – “Temporal Values in a Universe of Turbations: Application of the OCR Carbon Dating Procedure in Site Formation Analysis”
• Cori Kaplan – “Investigating Occupation Span at a Mississippian Homestead, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi”
• John E. Kelly – “Recent Investigations and Results at the East St. Louis Mound Group”
• Michael Ruddell and Chris Davenport – “Quaternary Vertebrate Paleontology of the Mid-South: New Clues for Paleoindian Subsistence Strategies.”

Publication: ???

• Kevin E. Smith – Becoming an Ancestor: Ruminations on Shamanism, Liminality, and ‘Families First’ in Middle Cumberland Mississippian Symbolism
• Samuel O. Brookes – Axes and Celts in the Middle Archaic in the Mid South
• Jon L. Gibson – Mounds for the Millenium, Could this be Magic?
• Evan Peacock – Woodland Period Sites on the Trace Unit of the Tombigbee National Forest, Northeast Mississippi
• Hunter B. Johnson and Edmond B. Boudreaux – The Florence Mound: A Middle Woodland Platform Mound in the Middle Tennessee Valley
• Mark R. Norton – Pinson Mounds (40Md1): Current Research and other Observations
• Guy Weaver – The Fulmer Site (40Sy527) A Tchula Settlement in West Tennessee
• T.R. Kidder – Archaeological Investigations at Raffman, Madison Parish, Louisiana
• Berle Clay – Geophysical Survey Strategies for Complex Prehistoric Sites
• J. Douglas Heffington and Whitney L. Nelson – Geography’s Homeland Concept: Applications for Toltec Mounds Archaeological State Park
• Monte Abbott – Cultural Investigation in the Southeast: Can We Resurrect Diffusion?
• Charles Hubbert – The Place of Early Side-Notched Projectile Points in the Prehistory of North Alabama: The Evidence from Beartail Rockshelter
• Michael C. Moore and Suzanne D. Hoyal – Salvage Excavations at the Brentwood Library Site (40Wm210); A Fortified Mississippian Town in Williamson County, Tennessee
• Dan Sumner Allen IV – Middle Cumberland Mortuary Patterning at the Brentwood Library Site (40Wm210) in the Central Basin, Williamson County, Tennessee
• Guy Weaver and Andrew Lamanna – Preliminary Results of Investigations at the Benjamin Hilderbrand House (40Sy615), Memphis, Tennessee
• Patrick H. Garrow – Working on the Railroad: Investigations of the M&O and L&N Terminal Site, Memphis, Tennessee

Publication: None planned.

Social Activities: Party and reception was hosted at the Group Camp Saturday evening.   Tours of the museum, Pinson Laboratory, and on-going excavations at the Western Mound Group were conducted on Sunday morning.

• Albertson, Eric (Panamerican Consultants) -- Implications Behind Early Archaic Settlement and Material Technology at Fort Campbell, Kentucky
• Allen, Dan Sumner ((DuVall & Associates) -- Middle Cumberland Mortuary Patterning in the Central Basin of Tennessee
• Applegate, Darlene (Western Kentucky University) -- Evidence of Differential Mortuary Treatment from the Watkins Site, a Woodland-Mississippian Period Burial Mound in Southcentral Kentucky
• Buchner, C. Andrew (Panamerican Consultants) -- The West Mounds Chieftain and Late Protohistoric Ethnicity in Tunica County, Mississippi
• Carstens, Kenneth C. and Nancy S. Carstens (Murray State University) -- George Rogers Clark's Fort Jefferson: An Historical Overview with Archaeological and Ethnic Considerations and Implications
• James, Stephen R. (Panamerican Consultants) -- Underwater Archaeological Investigations of the Battle of Johnsonville Site, Kentucky Lake, Tennessee
• Jeane, David R. (Arkansas Archeological Survey) -- Discovery of the French Occupation at Wallace's Bottom #2 (3AR179)
• Lafferty III, Robert H. (Mid-Continental Research Associates, Inc.) -- Affiliation Study of the Buffalo National River, Arkansas
• Shlasko, Ellen (University of Memphis) -- Ethnicity and Archaeology: An Overview
• Starr, Mary Evelyn (Weaver and Associates) - Architectural Comparisons in the Central Mississippi Valley
• Weaver, Guy G. (Weaver and Associates) -- Comments on the Material Correlates of Ethnic Boundaries
• Williams, Stephen (Lower Mississippi Survey) -- Nineteenth Century Ethnicity Studies: Exploding the A Myth about the Myth

Publication: ???

Social Activities: Party and reception was hosted by Panamerican Consultants, Inc. on Friday evening.

Publication: ???

Social Activities:

• Eric S. Albertson. Large scale survey in the Bayou Meto basin.
• C. Andrew Buchner and Craig E. Skinner. An Obsidian Artifact from the La Plant I site in the Cairo Lowland of Southeast Missouri
• Shawn Chapman and John Connaway. Recent Investigations at the Dickerson Site (22Co502), Coahoma County, Mississippi
• Bruce Council, Nicholas Honerkamp and Guy G. Weaver. The Wayne Furnace Site (40WY62): Preliminary Testing Results
• Michael C. Krivor. Submerged Cultural Resources Reconnaissance within the Lower White River, Arkansas
• McNutt, Charles, H., Jr.. Test Excavations at 22Lf551, a Late Woodland/Mississippian site in Leflore County, Mississippi
• Warren J. Oster, Charles H. McNutt, Sr., and Guy G. Weaver. Site Distributions in West Tennessee: Results of A Reconnaissance Survey Along the Proposed I-69 Corridor, Dyersburg to Millington
• Samuel O. Brookes. Preliminary observations on the Herring Cache: A Middle Archaic find from north central Mississippi
• Evan Peacock and Thomas Meaker. Freshwater Mussel Shell as a Potential Sourcing Agent for Mississippian and Protohistoric Ceramics
• F. Kent Reilly, III. A New Mississippian Female Image From Southern Arkansas
• Martha A. Rolingson. Progress Report on Mound S at the Toltec Mounds Site
• Ellen Shalasko. The Archaeology of Early 20th Century Tenant Farming in the Mid-South
• Guy G. Weaver and Bryan Stetzer. Recent Excavations at the Memphis Cobblestone Landing

Publication: ???

Social Activities: Get-together of Friday at the Ramada lounge. A tour of Chucalissa was hosted on Saturday afternoon and a post-conference reception was hosted in the Annesdale-Snowden NRHP District.

Link to conference abstracts

• Kit Wesler. Twenty Years, Twenty Questions: Tourists ask the strangest things
• Jim Phillips. Daub Analysis at Wickliffe
• Nancy A. Ross-Stallings. Just A Canoe Ride Downriver: A Comparison Of Mortuary Practices At Wickliffe Mounds With Sites On The Northern Mississippi Delta, Ca. AD 1200-1250
• William L. Lawrence. The Foxhole Site: An Emergent Mississippian Village At Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee
• Carol A. Morrow. Dhegiha Siouan Tribes And Their Potential For Mississippian Models
• William L. Lawrence. The Brewers Bar Mounds (Ob179): A Late Middle Mississippian Mortuary Site, Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee
• Robert H. Lafferty III and Martitia P. Tuttle. Archeological Excavations at Beckwith's Fort, Towosahgy State Park, Missouri
• Pat Trader. A Potential Protohistoric Site In Fulton County, Kentucky
• Jim Phillips. Interpreting 19th Century Archaeological Collections For A 21st Century Audience
• Jeffrey Alvey, Evan Peacock, and Charles O'Hara. A Comparison Of Gradiometer, Conductivity, And Hyperspectral Data From A Mississippian Mound Center In North-Central Mississippi
• James R. Morehead. Burkett and Weems: Late Archaic Chipped Stone Technology in the Missouri Bootheel
• C. Andrew Buchner. Radiocarbon Dates for the Hopewell Component at the LaPlant Site (23NM51) in Southeast Missouri
• Michael Tuttle. Civil War Era Steamboat Wrecks in the Tennessee River from the Battle of Johnsonville 1864
• Raymond Ezell and Emmett Brown. Archaeology And Domestic History Of James Machir's Caledonia Farmstead (46hy369) Hardy County, West Virginia

Publication: ???

Social Activities: Saturday reception at the Murray State University Faculty Club. A guided tour of Wickliffe Mounds Research Center, the Rowlandton MOund site in Paducah, and tentative tour of Kincaid Mounds was hosted on Saturday .