Eighteenth-Century Trails in the Choctaw Territory of Mississippi and Alabama

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Creator

Kenneth H. Carleton See all items with this value

Date

1989

Bibliographic Citation

Carlton, Kenneth Hoffman. 1989. Eighteenth-Century Trails in the Choctaw Territory of Mississippi and Alabama. Unpublished master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens.

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• Primarily Mississippi but includes brief discussions of southwest Alabama.
• Reconstructing trails within the Choctaw Nation in the [late] eighteenth century.
• Based on travel journals, maps (primarily from the second half of the century).
• Projects the location of Yowani village in Township 10N, Range 7 West (southwest quarter) (Carleton 1989:57).
o A search of the MSSF shows some survey work in the area, and several lithic debitage-only sites recorded in Wayne County. The area likely indicated by Carleton is Section 28 or thereabouts.
• Nanawaya [sic] Mound is identified in the text as 22WN501 (Carleton 1989:67) but is recorded with MDAH as 22WI500.
• Interesting discussion of eighteenth century population and house estimates in regard to villages and hamlets (Carleton 1989:114-115). Provides corresponding locations of these villages by townships and ranges.
o Brief check of the MSSF does show that over the intervening three decades since his thesis was published, there have been historical Native American sites recorded in many of these locations, however it is unclear if correlations between the archaeology and historical records have been made for these sites based on the reports.

Subject

Chahta (Choctaw) See all items with this value

Mississippi See all items with this value

Alabama See all items with this value

Transportation See all items with this value

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Mound See all items with this value

Temporal Coverage

Postcontact See all items with this value

18th Century See all items with this value

Spatial Coverage

Alabama

Mississippi