Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Study of the Black Warrior-Tombigbee System Corridor, Volume I: Archaeology

Title: Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Study of the Black Warrior-Tombigbee System Corridor, Volume I: Archaeology
Creator: David S. Brose, Ned J. Jenkins, Russell Weisman, George Lamb, Michael G. Lelong, and Victoria L. Rivizzigno See all items with this value
Date: 1983
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Bibliographic Citation: Brose, David S., Ned J. Jenkins, Russell Weisman, George Lamb, Michael G. Lelong, and Victoria L. Rivizzigno. 1983. Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Study of the Black Warrior-Tombigbee System Corridor, Volume I: Archaeology. Prepared for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District. University of South Alabama, Mobile.
annotates: • Site 1BA380 is reported as a Pensacola/Guillory/Doctor Lake shell midden eroding out of the riverbank, also containing French colonial glass, lead shot, and Native American Ceramics.
o Possibly “Naniaba Old Fields” (probably labeled as such on historical maps, check the Taitt map)
• 1CK20, a single earthen mound dating to the Mississippian, the northernmost expression of Pensacola ceramics and possibly associated with the nearby saline springs.
• 1MB210, from the site file: “this is an area indicated on the French Carte d’uns Partis manuscript map, circa 1720, as bluff of the Apalachee. Ceramics which may relate to historical Apalachee occupation were recovered from the eroded surface, however, no intact cultural deposits were encountered. The North boundary is a large erosional gully.”
o Presumably, this is the 1720s/1763 Carte d’une partie du cours de la riviere de la Mobille et de celle des Chicachas. Waselkov and Gums (2000:Figure 8) place this at Mount Vernon Landing.
• 1MB214, 1MB215, 1MB216, 1MB217 (listed in Silvia and Fuller as Mobilian occupations)
o Originally these sites were recorded as part of the Brose et al. (1983) work, but they vary in the site file as single sherds of various tempers, some associated with shell middens, site 1MB214 may not be Native American at all, hard to discern from the ASSF narrative.
o Site 1MB216 is reported to have Apalachee and Mobile components as well as a nineteenth century historical occupation but no specifics are listed in the site file. From site file, “historical Native American ceramics eroding from the bluff edge and shovel tests encountered intact soils up to 30 cmbs.”
• 1WN76 was visited and a collection made, dating to the Late Archaic and Early Woodland period, Middle Woodland, with possible Poverty Point objects.
Subject: Alabama See all items with this value; Rivers See all items with this value; Sites See all items with this value; Survey See all items with this value; Sampling See all items with this value; Artifacts See all items with this value; Ceramics See all items with this value; Shell Tempered See all items with this value; Midden See all items with this value; Mound See all items with this value; Apalachee See all items with this value; Poverty Point See all items with this value; Mobile Nation See all items with this value
Temporal Coverage: Precontact See all items with this value; Postcontact See all items with this value; Pensacola See all items with this value; Mississippian See all items with this value; Woodland See all items with this value; Archaic See all items with this value
Spatial Coverage: Alabama
Publisher: Department of Geology and Geography, University of South Alabama

Item sets: Archaeology Sources

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