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First -- Publication: Transcript.

Third -- 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.

Contents: Coming soon...

Ordering Information: MDAH Archaeological Report Series.

Fourth -- Publication:The Protohistoric Period in the Mid-South: 1500-1700 -- Proceedings of the 1983 Mid-South Archaeological Conference, edited by David H. Dye and Ronald C. Brister, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archaeological Report NO. 18, Jackson, Mississippi, 1986.

Contents:

  • Introduction -- David H. Dye
  • Corn and Other Plants from prehistory into History in Eastern United States -- Leonard W. Blake
  • The Direct Historical Approach and Early Historical Documents: The Ethnohistorian's View -- Patricia K. Galloway
  • Protohistory of the Lower and Central Arkansas River Valley in Arkansas -- Michael P. Hoffman
  • Tunicans West of the Mississippi: A Summary of Early Historic and Archaeological Evidence -- Marvin D. Jeter
  • Protohistoric Settlement Patterns in Northeastern Mississippi -- Jay K. Johnson and John T. Sparks
  • The Protohistoric Component at the Lyon's Bluff Site Complex, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi -- Richard A. Marshall
  • Protohistoric Hunting Sites in Northeastern Arkansas -- Dan F. Morse
  • Protohistoric Development in Central Alabama -- Craig T. Sheldon, Jr. and Ned J. Jenkins
Ordering Information: MDAH Archaeological Report Series.

Fifth -- 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

Contents: Coming soon.

Ordering Information: Out of print.

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

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Tenth -- Publication:The Archaic Period in the Mid-South: Proceedings of the 1989 Mid-South Archaeological Conference, 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.

Contents:

  • Where's the Archaic -- Stephen Williams
  • Have you Seen any Good Archaic Earthquake Cracks Lately? -- Roger Saucier
  • Late Archaic CUltures on the Northern Periphery of the Mid-South -- Thomas Emerson, Joyce Williams, and Paula Cross
  • Olive Branch Site: A Large Dalton and Pre-Dalton Encampment at Thebes Gap, Alexander County, Illinois -- Michael Gramly and Robert E. Funk
  • The Kimberly-Clark Site: A Late Archaic Cremation Cemetery -- Jefferson Chapman and Sue Myster
  • Limited Testing at Site 40My104: A Multi-Component Accretionary Mound, McNairy County, Tennessee -- Shari Moore
  • The Archaic Periodi in the MIssissippi Drainage of Western Tennessee -- Gerald Smith
  • Perforated Atlatal Weights in Northeast Arkansas -- Dan Morse
  • New Hypotheses for the Demise of the Shell Mound Archaic -- Cheryl Claasen
Ordering information: University of Memphis Occasional Papers Series .

Eleventh -- 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

Contents:

  • Religion of the Rings: Poverty Point Iconology and Ceremonialism -- Jon L. Gibson
  • The Old Stone Fort Revisited: New Clues to an Old Mystery -- Charles H. Faulkner
  • The Brogan Mound: A Middle Woodland Site in Clay County, Mississippi -- Keith A. Baca and Evan Peacock
  • Aboriginal Earthworks in Central Arkansas -- Michael S. Nassaney
  • Mounds, Embankments, and Ceremonialism in the Trans-Mississippi South -- Frank F. Schambach
  • Some Observations on Ceremonialism at the Obion Site -- Elizabeth B. Garlard
  • An Elite Burial Mound at Wickliffe? -- Kit W. Wesler
  • Observations on the Excavation of a Mississippi Mound -- Richard A. Krause
  • Unit 4 Excavations at the Chucalissa Site, 1960-1970 -- Mitchell R. Childres and Camille Wharey
  • Mound A Excavations at the West Mounds Site, Tunica County, Mississippi -- C. Andrew Buchner
Ordering information: Arkansas Archeological Survey Publications.

14th -- 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.

Contents: Coming soon...

Ordering Information: Out of Print.

16th -- Publication:Raw Materials and Exchange in the Mid-South: Proceedings of the 16th Annual Mid-South Archaeological Conference, edited by Evan Peacock and Samuel O. Brookes. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archaeological Report No. 29, Jackson Mississippi, 1999.

Contents:

  • Samuel O. McGahey -- Use and Avoidane of Kosciusko Quartzite in Prehistoric Mississippi Flaked Stone Assemblages
  • Timothy P. Phillips -- A Study of Lithic Material Distributions in the Assemblages of Aboriginal Sites on the Kisatchie National Forest
  • Scott C. Meeks -- The "Function" of Stone Tools in Prehistoric exchange Systems: A Look at Benton Interaction in the Mid-South
  • Eugene M. Futato -- Lithic Raw Materials and Settlement Patterns in the Western Middle Tennessee Valley Uplands
  • Jon L. Gibson -- Swamp Exchange and the Walled Mart: Poverty Point's Rock Business
  • Edmond A. Boudreaux III -- Stone Tools and Debitage from the Claiborne Site: An Analysis of the Mississippi State University Collection
  • Mitchell R. Childress -- The Evidence for Terminal Archaic-Early Woodland Exchange from the Upper Cumberland Drainage of Tennessee
  • Samuel O. Brookes -- Prehistoric Exchange in Mississippi, 10,000 B.C.-A.D. 1600
  • Kevin E. Smith and Michael C. Moore -- "Through Many Mississippian Hands:" Late Prehistoric Exchange in the Middle Cumberland Valley
  • James R. Atkinson -- Chronological Implications of Historic Trade Materials from Sites 22-Ad-903 and 22-Ad-901, Adams County, Mississippi
  • Ian W. Brown -- Contact, Communication, and Exchange: Some Thoughts on the Rapid Movement of Ideas and Objects
Ordering information: MDAH Archaeological Report Series.

17th Publication: Results of Recent Archaeological Investigations in the Greater Mid-South. Proceedings of the 17th Mid-South Archaeological Conference, Memphis, Tennessee: June 29-30, 1996. Edited by Charles H. McNutt. Occasional Paper No. 18, Anthropological Research Center, The University of Memphis, 1997.

Contents:

  • Introduction -- Charles H. McNutt
  • Corps of Engineers Archeology/Cultural Resources Management in the Memphis District (1969-1995) -- Jimmy McNeil
  • Recent Archeological Excavations in the New Madrid Floodway and the New Madrid Seismic Zone -- Robert H. Lafferty III
  • Early Non-earthwork Structures in the Midsouth -- Gerald P. Smith
  • Aspects of the Middle Archaic: The Atassa -- Sam Brooks
  • Current and Future Directions in the Analysis of Freshwater Bivalves in Archaeology -- Evan Peacock
  • Treponemal Syndrone in the Mississippi Delta Revisited: A Case from the Barner Site (22-CO-542) and a Probable case of Congenital Treponemal Syndrone from the Austin Site (22-TU-549) -- Nancy Ross-Stallings
  • The Mississippian Archaeology of Phillips County, Arkansas: Ellis Mound and other Components -- Mary Evelyn Starr
  • Archaeological Predictive Modeling in the Northeastern Yazoo Basin -- Richard J. Stallings
  • Excavations at the Otto Sharpe Site -- William H. Lawrence
  • Examining Chronology and Function at Moundville -- Robyn Astin
  • Middle Cumberland Mississippian Mortuary Patterning at Travellers Rest (40DV11), Davidson County, Tennessee: A Comparative Analysis -- Dan Sumner Allen IV
  • Archaeological Investigations of the Courthouse Block, Knoxville, Tennessee -- Pat Garrow.
Ordering Information: University of Memphis Occasional Papers Series .

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