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Title
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Prehistoric and Early Historic Occupation of the Mobile Bay and Mobile Delta area with an Emphasis on Subsistence.
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Date
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1976
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Bibliographic Citation
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Curren, Calilup B., Jr. 1976. Prehistoric and Early Historic Occupation of the Mobile Bay and Mobile Delta area with an Emphasis on Subsistence. Journal of Alabama Archaeology 22(1):61-84.
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annotates
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• Studied a control block unit worth of faunal remains from 1BA196 that was fine screened.
• Curren (1976:177): “The subsistence of the Indians living on D’Olive Creek still remained virtually unaffected by the newcomers from across the sea. The site therefore provides a rare opportunity to examine the faunal procurement system of a native [sic] American group prior to any major alterations from invading Europeans.”
• Summarizes that this is a seasonal pattern of cycling between the interior and the coast, equivalent to that of the Choctaw in the Mississippi interior, however this is a direct line historical approach between pre-European and post-European patterning, rather than being based on archaeological evidence.