Charles H Mcnutt
Biographic Data
| ID | 206690 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles H Mcnutt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles H |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcnutt |
| SIGNATURE | MCNUTT C H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Memphis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Cahokia in Context: Hegemony and Diaspora
The Fisk channels and the De Soto crossing (A.D. 1541): A clarification
Students of the Hernando De Soto expedition are in general agreement that he crossed the Mississippi River at Quizquiz on June 18, 1541. There has been considerable debate about the location of Quizquiz, but not a great deal about the location of the Mississippi River when De Soto crossed it. Following the conclusion of Phillips in the Phillips, Ford, and Griffin volume it was generally assumed that Fisk’s River Stage 15 approximated the location…
Sandia cave reconsidered
Review of the controversy surrounding the excavation of Sandia cave, New Mexico, and infrared Raman laser studies of the existing specimens from the site suggests the probability of a pre-Clovis occupation at the site. Pleistocene fauna attributed by Hibben to his Folsom layer quite probably belong to Haynes and Agogino’s more recently defined Unit F. This was apparently the original locus of the Sandia points, and it has produced pre-Clovis date…
The Shelby Forest Site in Southwest Tennessee and Early Mississippian Red-Filmed Pottery in the Central Mississippi Valley
The Shelby Forest site in southwest Tennessee is an Early Mississippian component characterized by Varney Red Filmed ceramics. Comparison to other sites in the Reelfoot Lake area of west Tennessee and the Upper St. Francis Basin of Missouri and Arkansas allows refinement of the direction, timing, and characteristics of influences from these areas northeastward to American Bottom and southward into the Yazoo Basin of Mississippi. Subsequent influe…
Carson Lake Punctated: Sociological implications of a ceramic motif from the Central Mississippi Valley
A distinctive ceramic motif, a series of punctations within a pendant triangular field, has a limited distribution within the central portion of the Nodena phase region of northeastern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri. Based on the presence of key horizon markers, the ceramic crafting took place within a generation or two during the protohistoric period. The motif’s distribution is suggestive of a localized group of potters engaged in some type…
New Perspectives on Mississippian Occupations in Western Tennessee and Northwestern Mississippi: Recent Chronological and Geophysical Investigations at Chucalissa (40sy1), Shelby County, Tennessee
Investigations at Chucalissa (40SY1) in Shelby County, Tennessee, have been instrumental in establishing Mississippian period chronology for southwestern Tennessee and much of the surrounding region. Excavations conducted in 2003 produced a suite of new radiocarbon dates that has provided a refined developmental lineage of occupations in West Tennessee and northwestern Mississippi, while geophysical investigations in 2011 have clarified our under…
The Central Mississippi Valley: A Summary
The Upper Yazoo Basin in Northwest Mississippi
Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley
The Central Mississippi Valley, defined as the region along the Mississippi River from where the Ohio River joins in the north to its confluence with the Arkansas River in the south, lies between the two most important archaeological areas of the Southeast: American Bottom/Cahokia and the Lower Yazoo Basin. The valley has been influenced by these major centers and has a complex history of its own. Contributions from experts throughout the region …
Hernando De Soto's Route from Chicaça through Northeast Arkansas: A Suggestion
As a result of excavations in the protohistoric component at Chickasawba (3MS5) in Mississippi County, Arkansas, the authors were led to examine current interpretations of De Soto's route through northeast Arkansas. Certain difficulties appear to exist. This article provides a suggested alternative that does much to resolve these problems. Chickasawba is a multimound center located on Pemiscot Bayou, in Mississippi County, Arkansas (Figure 1). At…
The Little River Sites, Poinsett and Mississippi Counties, Arkansas
Late prehistoric and early protohistoric Mississippian components have long been recognized along the Left-hand Chute of Little River, in northeastern Arkansas. They have a distinctive ceramic complex, but it has never been described in the professional literature. In this article a summary of current knowledge is provided
Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils: The Backbone of Archaeological Dating
Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils: The Backbone of Archaeological Dating. Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999. 254 pp
Obituary
Nearest Neighbors, Boundary Effect, and the Old Flag Trick: A General Solution
This paper presents a method for quantifying 'boundary effect' in square, rectangular, triangular, and circular study areas. It is based upon a very different, theoretically oriented modification of the classic computation methods, is applicable to the variously shaped study areas described, and produces results which approximate simulation data quite closely
On the Methodological Validity of Frequency Seriation
Frequency seriation has often led to valid ordering of archaeological data, yet critiques of the technique, and in particular of the construction of unimodal popularity (battleship) curves, have appeared periodically for almost 20 yr. Problems of type definition, collection manipulation, and chronological inference have been emphasized. It is here suggested that, above and beyond these difficulties of execution and interpretation, frequency seria…
Early Puebloan Occupations at Tesuque By-Pass and in the Upper Rio Grande Valley: Tesuque By-Pass and Upper Rio Grande Valley
Charles H. McNutt reports on excavations at the Tesuque By-Pass site in the northern Rio Grande Valley, north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. He found three Puebloan components and two pithouse occupations, spanning the period from about AD 900 to 1300. He includes detailed discussions of pottery and related ceramic complexes, as well as comparisons to other occupations in the area. Appendix on faunal remains by Arthur J. Jelinek
Charles H. Nash, 1908-1968
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Archeology: The Black Partizan Site. W arren W. C aldwell
The Red Butte Lithic Sites Near Grand Canyon, Arizona
Surface collections from three sites at Red Butte, near Grand Canyon in northern Arizona, produced small, concave-based Pinto points, as well as fragmentary Ventana-Amargosa forms. In addition, a wide range of lithic tools was found. Lateral and basal grinding on several points suggest that at least one preceramic component is represented. No points characteristic of the ceramic period were obtained, but a few potsherds dating A.D. 1000-1200 were…
Bibliography of Primary Sources for Radiocarbon Dates
A chronology program was launched in December, 1957, by the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution for the purpose of testing culture sequences in the Central and Northern Plains and contiguous regions. The Missouri Basin Chronology Program envisages (a) assembling all relevant chronological data in hand and (b) selecting materials for analysis by the various dating methods. The Missouri Basin Project acts as coordinator of the pro…
A Pit House Site near Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico
One of the greatest problems confronting southwestern archaeology in its aim of interpretive reconstruction of the cultures of prehistoric peoples lies in filling the gaps where little or no information exists concerning significant periods of development in particular areas. One such interval, of considerable duration, exists in the middle Rio Grande Valley. We have known for some time that this region was inhabited by some of the early hunting …
Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley
The Central Mississippi Valley, defined as the region along the Mississippi River from where the Ohio River joins in the north to its confluence with the Arkansas River in the south, lies between the two most important archaeological areas of the Southeast: American Bottom/Cahokia and the Lower Yazoo Basin. The valley has been influenced by these major centers and has a complex history of its own. Contributions from experts throughout the region …
Early Puebloan Occupations at Tesuque By-Pass and in the Upper Rio Grande Valley: Tesuque By-Pass and Upper Rio Grande Valley
Charles H. McNutt reports on excavations at the Tesuque By-Pass site in the northern Rio Grande Valley, north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. He found three Puebloan components and two pithouse occupations, spanning the period from about AD 900 to 1300. He includes detailed discussions of pottery and related ceramic complexes, as well as comparisons to other occupations in the area. Appendix on faunal remains by Arthur J. Jelinek
Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils: The Backbone of Archaeological Dating
Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils: The Backbone of Archaeological Dating. Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999. 254 pp
The Red Butte Lithic Sites Near Grand Canyon, Arizona
Surface collections from three sites at Red Butte, near Grand Canyon in northern Arizona, produced small, concave-based Pinto points, as well as fragmentary Ventana-Amargosa forms. In addition, a wide range of lithic tools was found. Lateral and basal grinding on several points suggest that at least one preceramic component is represented. No points characteristic of the ceramic period were obtained, but a few potsherds dating A.D. 1000-1200 were…
On the Methodological Validity of Frequency Seriation
Frequency seriation has often led to valid ordering of archaeological data, yet critiques of the technique, and in particular of the construction of unimodal popularity (battleship) curves, have appeared periodically for almost 20 yr. Problems of type definition, collection manipulation, and chronological inference have been emphasized. It is here suggested that, above and beyond these difficulties of execution and interpretation, frequency seria…
New Perspectives on Mississippian Occupations in Western Tennessee and Northwestern Mississippi: Recent Chronological and Geophysical Investigations at Chucalissa (40sy1), Shelby County, Tennessee
Investigations at Chucalissa (40SY1) in Shelby County, Tennessee, have been instrumental in establishing Mississippian period chronology for southwestern Tennessee and much of the surrounding region. Excavations conducted in 2003 produced a suite of new radiocarbon dates that has provided a refined developmental lineage of occupations in West Tennessee and northwestern Mississippi, while geophysical investigations in 2011 have clarified our under…
Obituary
Nearest Neighbors, Boundary Effect, and the Old Flag Trick: A General Solution
This paper presents a method for quantifying 'boundary effect' in square, rectangular, triangular, and circular study areas. It is based upon a very different, theoretically oriented modification of the classic computation methods, is applicable to the variously shaped study areas described, and produces results which approximate simulation data quite closely
The Fisk channels and the De Soto crossing (A.D. 1541): A clarification
Students of the Hernando De Soto expedition are in general agreement that he crossed the Mississippi River at Quizquiz on June 18, 1541. There has been considerable debate about the location of Quizquiz, but not a great deal about the location of the Mississippi River when De Soto crossed it. Following the conclusion of Phillips in the Phillips, Ford, and Griffin volume it was generally assumed that Fisk’s River Stage 15 approximated the location…
Hernando De Soto's Route from Chicaça through Northeast Arkansas: A Suggestion
As a result of excavations in the protohistoric component at Chickasawba (3MS5) in Mississippi County, Arkansas, the authors were led to examine current interpretations of De Soto's route through northeast Arkansas. Certain difficulties appear to exist. This article provides a suggested alternative that does much to resolve these problems. Chickasawba is a multimound center located on Pemiscot Bayou, in Mississippi County, Arkansas (Figure 1). At…
Bibliography of Primary Sources for Radiocarbon Dates
A chronology program was launched in December, 1957, by the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution for the purpose of testing culture sequences in the Central and Northern Plains and contiguous regions. The Missouri Basin Chronology Program envisages (a) assembling all relevant chronological data in hand and (b) selecting materials for analysis by the various dating methods. The Missouri Basin Project acts as coordinator of the pro…
A Pit House Site near Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico
One of the greatest problems confronting southwestern archaeology in its aim of interpretive reconstruction of the cultures of prehistoric peoples lies in filling the gaps where little or no information exists concerning significant periods of development in particular areas. One such interval, of considerable duration, exists in the middle Rio Grande Valley. We have known for some time that this region was inhabited by some of the early hunting …
A Pit House Site near Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico
One of the greatest problems confronting southwestern archaeology in its aim of interpretive reconstruction of the cultures of prehistoric peoples lies in filling the gaps where little or no information exists concerning significant periods of development in particular areas. One such interval, of considerable duration, exists in the middle Rio Grande Valley. We have known for some time that this region was inhabited by some of the early hunting …
Bibliography of Primary Sources for Radiocarbon Dates
A chronology program was launched in December, 1957, by the Missouri Basin Project of the Smithsonian Institution for the purpose of testing culture sequences in the Central and Northern Plains and contiguous regions. The Missouri Basin Chronology Program envisages (a) assembling all relevant chronological data in hand and (b) selecting materials for analysis by the various dating methods. The Missouri Basin Project acts as coordinator of the pro…
The Red Butte Lithic Sites Near Grand Canyon, Arizona
Surface collections from three sites at Red Butte, near Grand Canyon in northern Arizona, produced small, concave-based Pinto points, as well as fragmentary Ventana-Amargosa forms. In addition, a wide range of lithic tools was found. Lateral and basal grinding on several points suggest that at least one preceramic component is represented. No points characteristic of the ceramic period were obtained, but a few potsherds dating A.D. 1000-1200 were…
Archeology: The Black Partizan Site. W arren W. C aldwell
Early Puebloan Occupations at Tesuque By-Pass and in the Upper Rio Grande Valley: Tesuque By-Pass and Upper Rio Grande Valley
Charles H. McNutt reports on excavations at the Tesuque By-Pass site in the northern Rio Grande Valley, north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. He found three Puebloan components and two pithouse occupations, spanning the period from about AD 900 to 1300. He includes detailed discussions of pottery and related ceramic complexes, as well as comparisons to other occupations in the area. Appendix on faunal remains by Arthur J. Jelinek
Charles H. Nash, 1908-1968
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
On the Methodological Validity of Frequency Seriation
Frequency seriation has often led to valid ordering of archaeological data, yet critiques of the technique, and in particular of the construction of unimodal popularity (battleship) curves, have appeared periodically for almost 20 yr. Problems of type definition, collection manipulation, and chronological inference have been emphasized. It is here suggested that, above and beyond these difficulties of execution and interpretation, frequency seria…
Nearest Neighbors, Boundary Effect, and the Old Flag Trick: A General Solution
This paper presents a method for quantifying 'boundary effect' in square, rectangular, triangular, and circular study areas. It is based upon a very different, theoretically oriented modification of the classic computation methods, is applicable to the variously shaped study areas described, and produces results which approximate simulation data quite closely
Obituary
Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils: The Backbone of Archaeological Dating
Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils: The Backbone of Archaeological Dating. Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999. 254 pp
The Little River Sites, Poinsett and Mississippi Counties, Arkansas
Late prehistoric and early protohistoric Mississippian components have long been recognized along the Left-hand Chute of Little River, in northeastern Arkansas. They have a distinctive ceramic complex, but it has never been described in the professional literature. In this article a summary of current knowledge is provided
Hernando De Soto's Route from Chicaça through Northeast Arkansas: A Suggestion
As a result of excavations in the protohistoric component at Chickasawba (3MS5) in Mississippi County, Arkansas, the authors were led to examine current interpretations of De Soto's route through northeast Arkansas. Certain difficulties appear to exist. This article provides a suggested alternative that does much to resolve these problems. Chickasawba is a multimound center located on Pemiscot Bayou, in Mississippi County, Arkansas (Figure 1). At…
The Central Mississippi Valley: A Summary
The Upper Yazoo Basin in Northwest Mississippi
Prehistory of the Central Mississippi Valley
The Central Mississippi Valley, defined as the region along the Mississippi River from where the Ohio River joins in the north to its confluence with the Arkansas River in the south, lies between the two most important archaeological areas of the Southeast: American Bottom/Cahokia and the Lower Yazoo Basin. The valley has been influenced by these major centers and has a complex history of its own. Contributions from experts throughout the region …
New Perspectives on Mississippian Occupations in Western Tennessee and Northwestern Mississippi: Recent Chronological and Geophysical Investigations at Chucalissa (40sy1), Shelby County, Tennessee
Investigations at Chucalissa (40SY1) in Shelby County, Tennessee, have been instrumental in establishing Mississippian period chronology for southwestern Tennessee and much of the surrounding region. Excavations conducted in 2003 produced a suite of new radiocarbon dates that has provided a refined developmental lineage of occupations in West Tennessee and northwestern Mississippi, while geophysical investigations in 2011 have clarified our under…
The Shelby Forest Site in Southwest Tennessee and Early Mississippian Red-Filmed Pottery in the Central Mississippi Valley
The Shelby Forest site in southwest Tennessee is an Early Mississippian component characterized by Varney Red Filmed ceramics. Comparison to other sites in the Reelfoot Lake area of west Tennessee and the Upper St. Francis Basin of Missouri and Arkansas allows refinement of the direction, timing, and characteristics of influences from these areas northeastward to American Bottom and southward into the Yazoo Basin of Mississippi. Subsequent influe…
Carson Lake Punctated: Sociological implications of a ceramic motif from the Central Mississippi Valley
A distinctive ceramic motif, a series of punctations within a pendant triangular field, has a limited distribution within the central portion of the Nodena phase region of northeastern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri. Based on the presence of key horizon markers, the ceramic crafting took place within a generation or two during the protohistoric period. The motif’s distribution is suggestive of a localized group of potters engaged in some type…
The Fisk channels and the De Soto crossing (A.D. 1541): A clarification
Students of the Hernando De Soto expedition are in general agreement that he crossed the Mississippi River at Quizquiz on June 18, 1541. There has been considerable debate about the location of Quizquiz, but not a great deal about the location of the Mississippi River when De Soto crossed it. Following the conclusion of Phillips in the Phillips, Ford, and Griffin volume it was generally assumed that Fisk’s River Stage 15 approximated the location…
Sandia cave reconsidered
Review of the controversy surrounding the excavation of Sandia cave, New Mexico, and infrared Raman laser studies of the existing specimens from the site suggests the probability of a pre-Clovis occupation at the site. Pleistocene fauna attributed by Hibben to his Folsom layer quite probably belong to Haynes and Agogino’s more recently defined Unit F. This was apparently the original locus of the Sandia points, and it has produced pre-Clovis date…
Cahokia in Context: Hegemony and Diaspora
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