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Title
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Potsherds from Choctaw Village Sites in Mississippi
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Date
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1927
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/24522489
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Bibliographic Citation
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Collins, Henry B., Jr. 1927. Potsherds from Choctaw Village Sites in Mississippi. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 17(10):259-263.
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If this work was proposed today, it would not be approved if done in consultation with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
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• Clarke, Coosa (Ponta site), Wayne, Newton, and Neshoba counties, Mississippi; work carried out in conjunction with BAE and MDAH.
• Collins (1927:260): [in the absence of preservation of wood, textiles, stoneworks, such as in the southwest] “It is very desirable, therefore, to seize upon every available source of tribal identification (emphasis added) of the cultures represented, and to accomplish this end there is probably no safer beginning than to locate the historic Indian village sites and to study their type of cultural remains for comparison with other sites of unknown age.”
• Surface collections made at sites, in conjunction with Halbert’s work across the state. One of the earliest publications recognizing the historical Choctaw ceramic assemblage based on the association with documented villages.
• In addition to the large assemblages of pottery, gunflints, lead bullets, and blue glass beads were observed but not afforded much discussion.
• Chickachae Combed is defined technically as an archaeological type.
o Curvilinear scroll/scroll-like, sometimes angular zigzags, in a band parallel to the rim. Four to six fine lines combed (lightly incised) in each band applied to dry paste. Most often identified on small bowls (6-8 in. in diameter) with rounded bottoms.
o Collins does not afford much consideration to vessel form, or perhaps there were not many forms identifiable in the assemblages.
o Presumed association with French Colonial incursion (1700-1763) but no dateable/dated contexts.