J M Mehta
Biographic Data
| ID | 43144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J M Mehta |
| GIVEN NAMES | J M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehta |
| SIGNATURE | MEHTA J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8312-7928 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Climate-driven depopulation and adaptation realities in America’s coastal ground zero
Investigations at the Adams Bay Site (16PL8), a Plaquemines mound complex located in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
This paper provides an overview of the 2018 fieldwork investigations conducted at the Adams Bay site (16PL8) located in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. This Plaquemine culture mound complex (AD 1200–1500) is situated on a subsiding and eroding marsh island that is actively being destroyed. An interdisciplinary team, including archaeologists, wetlands biologists, and high school students from the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, collected …
A river runs through it”: Archaeology of Indigenous settlements in the Mississippi River Delta in southeastern Louisiana
Papers in this special thematic issue of Southeastern Archaeology consider threats posed to archaeological sites in the Mississippi River Delta in southeastern Louisiana, and they discuss archaeological finds at select sites in the region. Archaeological sites and larger landscapes in this region are indeed affected by several ongoing processes, including sea-level rise, coastal subsidence, fragmentation of wetlands, trends in the frequency and s…
Integrating interdisciplinary thinking and education in graduate disaster research curricula: Insights from statistical, sentiment, and thematic analysis
Natural hazard and disaster resilience research requires a multidisciplinary approach to address the complexities of risk mitigation and recovery for vulnerable communities. To this end, an interdisciplinary course was developed, with faculty from civil engineering, urban planning, and anthropology. The course aimed to deepen students' understanding of coastal hazard risks and to equip them with an understanding of interdisciplinary and community…
Lost to sea: Louisiana and its remarkable, fading history
Not a matter of if, but when: Calculating and communicating sea level rise effects on cultural resources in coastal Louisiana and Florida
Cultural-ecosystem resilience is vital yet under-considered in coastal restoration
As large areas of the Mississippi River Delta (MRD) of the USA disappear into the sea, present-day communities and cultural resources are lost. While the land loss may be readily quantified, describing the impact of cultural losses is less straightforward because cultural elements are frequently less tangible and difficult to map, identify, and categorize. The elision of cultural components of landscapes and ecosystems is evident in restoration p…
Monument volumes and viewshed analysis at the Carson mounds site (22CO505), Coahoma County, Mississippi
A centennial perspective on archeological research trends and contemporary needs for a vanishing Mississippi Delta
Archeological investigations of the Mississippi Delta (U.S.) are reaching the century mark and provide information relevant to Holocene settlement patterns and present-day issues of human adaptation to coastal change. This review synthesizes the history of archeological research over the last ~100 years in the Mississippi Delta, an area that is deteriorating at a historically unprecedented rate. Early 20th century investigations provided sketches…
History and Hydrology: Engineering Canoe Canals in the Estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico
Local lore has long identified an entrenched feature crossing Fort Morgan peninsula on Alabama’s Gulf of Mexico coast (USA) as an ancient canoe canal, a folk identification now confirmed by archival, artifactual, geochronological, geoarchaeological, and hydrological evidence. A 1.39 km canal (site 1BA709) linked two estuaries, Oyster Bay and Little Lagoon, connecting Mobile Bay to the Gulf of Mexico late in the Middle Woodland period, ca. a.d. 60…
An Unthinkable Loss
As climate change has become a global issue, it is important to assess its impacts on not only our modern day resources, but also our archaeological resources. An archaeological approach to climate change sheds light on themes of resilience, natural and cultural relationships, public outreach, social inequalities, and interdisciplinary perspectives (Hudson et al. 2012). In this paper, we organize fifteen archaeological and historical sites within…
Reflections on Teaching the History of Colonization, Slavery, and the African Diaspora Using Primary Sources and Historical Fiction
New Orleans is a place of living history, a wounded but vibrant place. The shadow of the past is omnipresent, and it confronts the present daily as statues that commemorate the Confederate army are taken down and colonial pottery washes out of roadcuts. Teaching the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, which spanned from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries and resulted in millions of Africans becoming enslaved in the New World, was an …
Diasporic Connections: Cahokia and the Greater Southeast
Mound building and summit architecture at the Carson site, a Mississippian mound center in the southeastern United States
Significant scholarly attention has been paid to monument construction, craft production, and leadership strategies in the Mississippian world (A.D. 1000 to A.D. 1540) of the Southeastern and Midcontinental United States. As new sites are discovered and new data brought into consideration, greater consideration can be made linking the building of large earthen mounds to social and political relationships. This article presents an archaeological a…
Mississippian Culture and Cahokian Identities as Considered Through Household Archaeology at Carson, a Monumental Center in North Mississippi
Mound Construction and Site Selection in the Lafourche Subdelta of the Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana, USA
Sediment coring and trench excavation, radiocarbon dating, LiDAR data, and indigenous material culture are used to evaluate the cultural affiliation of the Grand Caillou earthen mound site and to place this site within its broader geographic context. This prehistoric Native American complex is located within the Lafourche subdelta, an abandoned portion of the Mississippi River Delta that was active from AD 400 to 1400. Interdisciplinary approache…
Geochemical source evaluation of archaeological chert from the Carson mounds site in northwestern Mississippi using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF)
Mississippian craft production in the Yazoo Basin: Thin-section analysis of a Mississippian structure floor on the summit of Mound D at the Carson site
Mississippian monumentality in the Yazoo Basin: Recent investigations at the Carson site (22CO505), northwestern Mississippi
Investigations at the Carson site (22CO505), located in Coahoma County, Mississippi, have uncovered data on the development of a large Mississippian mound center dating to the period from A.D. 1200 through European contact. Recent sediment coring, excavation, artifact analyses, and radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating shed light on earthworks and household structures at Carson, and on Mississippian culture in the Yazoo B…
Spanish Conquistadores, French Explorers, and Natchez Great Suns in Southwestern Mississippi, 1542-1729
Th e Natchez Indians of the late protohistoric period are frequently used as a model for the study of chiefl y societies in the southern United States. 1 French accounts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries describe in detail Natchez social organization-among many things, they portray an entrenched hierarchical political order and the distribution of Native groups in a dispersed pattern occupying the outlying fringes of the Aeolian bluff…
Moving Earth and Building Monuments at the Carson Mounds Site, Coahoma County, Mississippi
The application of combined techniques such as aerial imagery, sediment coring, down-hole magnetic susceptibility, and mechanized trench excavation can provide critical information on landscape formation and mound stratigraphy, specifically if they can be used to understand mound sequences and development. This paper reviews preliminary findings from recent coring and test excavations at the Carson mounds site (22CO505) in Coahoma County, Mississ…
Mississippian Culture and Cahokian Identities as Considered Through Household Archaeology at Carson, a Monumental Center in North Mississippi
History and Hydrology: Engineering Canoe Canals in the Estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico
Local lore has long identified an entrenched feature crossing Fort Morgan peninsula on Alabama’s Gulf of Mexico coast (USA) as an ancient canoe canal, a folk identification now confirmed by archival, artifactual, geochronological, geoarchaeological, and hydrological evidence. A 1.39 km canal (site 1BA709) linked two estuaries, Oyster Bay and Little Lagoon, connecting Mobile Bay to the Gulf of Mexico late in the Middle Woodland period, ca. a.d. 60…
Diasporic Connections: Cahokia and the Greater Southeast
Mississippian monumentality in the Yazoo Basin: Recent investigations at the Carson site (22CO505), northwestern Mississippi
Investigations at the Carson site (22CO505), located in Coahoma County, Mississippi, have uncovered data on the development of a large Mississippian mound center dating to the period from A.D. 1200 through European contact. Recent sediment coring, excavation, artifact analyses, and radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating shed light on earthworks and household structures at Carson, and on Mississippian culture in the Yazoo B…
Mississippian craft production in the Yazoo Basin: Thin-section analysis of a Mississippian structure floor on the summit of Mound D at the Carson site
Mound Construction and Site Selection in the Lafourche Subdelta of the Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana, USA
Sediment coring and trench excavation, radiocarbon dating, LiDAR data, and indigenous material culture are used to evaluate the cultural affiliation of the Grand Caillou earthen mound site and to place this site within its broader geographic context. This prehistoric Native American complex is located within the Lafourche subdelta, an abandoned portion of the Mississippi River Delta that was active from AD 400 to 1400. Interdisciplinary approache…
Spanish Conquistadores, French Explorers, and Natchez Great Suns in Southwestern Mississippi, 1542-1729
Th e Natchez Indians of the late protohistoric period are frequently used as a model for the study of chiefl y societies in the southern United States. 1 French accounts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries describe in detail Natchez social organization-among many things, they portray an entrenched hierarchical political order and the distribution of Native groups in a dispersed pattern occupying the outlying fringes of the Aeolian bluff…
A centennial perspective on archeological research trends and contemporary needs for a vanishing Mississippi Delta
Archeological investigations of the Mississippi Delta (U.S.) are reaching the century mark and provide information relevant to Holocene settlement patterns and present-day issues of human adaptation to coastal change. This review synthesizes the history of archeological research over the last ~100 years in the Mississippi Delta, an area that is deteriorating at a historically unprecedented rate. Early 20th century investigations provided sketches…
Moving Earth and Building Monuments at the Carson Mounds Site, Coahoma County, Mississippi
The application of combined techniques such as aerial imagery, sediment coring, down-hole magnetic susceptibility, and mechanized trench excavation can provide critical information on landscape formation and mound stratigraphy, specifically if they can be used to understand mound sequences and development. This paper reviews preliminary findings from recent coring and test excavations at the Carson mounds site (22CO505) in Coahoma County, Mississ…
Spanish Conquistadores, French Explorers, and Natchez Great Suns in Southwestern Mississippi, 1542-1729
Th e Natchez Indians of the late protohistoric period are frequently used as a model for the study of chiefl y societies in the southern United States. 1 French accounts from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries describe in detail Natchez social organization-among many things, they portray an entrenched hierarchical political order and the distribution of Native groups in a dispersed pattern occupying the outlying fringes of the Aeolian bluff…
Geochemical source evaluation of archaeological chert from the Carson mounds site in northwestern Mississippi using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF)
Mississippian craft production in the Yazoo Basin: Thin-section analysis of a Mississippian structure floor on the summit of Mound D at the Carson site
Mississippian monumentality in the Yazoo Basin: Recent investigations at the Carson site (22CO505), northwestern Mississippi
Investigations at the Carson site (22CO505), located in Coahoma County, Mississippi, have uncovered data on the development of a large Mississippian mound center dating to the period from A.D. 1200 through European contact. Recent sediment coring, excavation, artifact analyses, and radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating shed light on earthworks and household structures at Carson, and on Mississippian culture in the Yazoo B…
Mound Construction and Site Selection in the Lafourche Subdelta of the Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana, USA
Sediment coring and trench excavation, radiocarbon dating, LiDAR data, and indigenous material culture are used to evaluate the cultural affiliation of the Grand Caillou earthen mound site and to place this site within its broader geographic context. This prehistoric Native American complex is located within the Lafourche subdelta, an abandoned portion of the Mississippi River Delta that was active from AD 400 to 1400. Interdisciplinary approache…
Mound building and summit architecture at the Carson site, a Mississippian mound center in the southeastern United States
Significant scholarly attention has been paid to monument construction, craft production, and leadership strategies in the Mississippian world (A.D. 1000 to A.D. 1540) of the Southeastern and Midcontinental United States. As new sites are discovered and new data brought into consideration, greater consideration can be made linking the building of large earthen mounds to social and political relationships. This article presents an archaeological a…
Mississippian Culture and Cahokian Identities as Considered Through Household Archaeology at Carson, a Monumental Center in North Mississippi
An Unthinkable Loss
As climate change has become a global issue, it is important to assess its impacts on not only our modern day resources, but also our archaeological resources. An archaeological approach to climate change sheds light on themes of resilience, natural and cultural relationships, public outreach, social inequalities, and interdisciplinary perspectives (Hudson et al. 2012). In this paper, we organize fifteen archaeological and historical sites within…
Reflections on Teaching the History of Colonization, Slavery, and the African Diaspora Using Primary Sources and Historical Fiction
New Orleans is a place of living history, a wounded but vibrant place. The shadow of the past is omnipresent, and it confronts the present daily as statues that commemorate the Confederate army are taken down and colonial pottery washes out of roadcuts. Teaching the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, which spanned from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries and resulted in millions of Africans becoming enslaved in the New World, was an …
Diasporic Connections: Cahokia and the Greater Southeast
Monument volumes and viewshed analysis at the Carson mounds site (22CO505), Coahoma County, Mississippi
A centennial perspective on archeological research trends and contemporary needs for a vanishing Mississippi Delta
Archeological investigations of the Mississippi Delta (U.S.) are reaching the century mark and provide information relevant to Holocene settlement patterns and present-day issues of human adaptation to coastal change. This review synthesizes the history of archeological research over the last ~100 years in the Mississippi Delta, an area that is deteriorating at a historically unprecedented rate. Early 20th century investigations provided sketches…
History and Hydrology: Engineering Canoe Canals in the Estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico
Local lore has long identified an entrenched feature crossing Fort Morgan peninsula on Alabama’s Gulf of Mexico coast (USA) as an ancient canoe canal, a folk identification now confirmed by archival, artifactual, geochronological, geoarchaeological, and hydrological evidence. A 1.39 km canal (site 1BA709) linked two estuaries, Oyster Bay and Little Lagoon, connecting Mobile Bay to the Gulf of Mexico late in the Middle Woodland period, ca. a.d. 60…
Cultural-ecosystem resilience is vital yet under-considered in coastal restoration
As large areas of the Mississippi River Delta (MRD) of the USA disappear into the sea, present-day communities and cultural resources are lost. While the land loss may be readily quantified, describing the impact of cultural losses is less straightforward because cultural elements are frequently less tangible and difficult to map, identify, and categorize. The elision of cultural components of landscapes and ecosystems is evident in restoration p…
Integrating interdisciplinary thinking and education in graduate disaster research curricula: Insights from statistical, sentiment, and thematic analysis
Natural hazard and disaster resilience research requires a multidisciplinary approach to address the complexities of risk mitigation and recovery for vulnerable communities. To this end, an interdisciplinary course was developed, with faculty from civil engineering, urban planning, and anthropology. The course aimed to deepen students' understanding of coastal hazard risks and to equip them with an understanding of interdisciplinary and community…
Lost to sea: Louisiana and its remarkable, fading history
Not a matter of if, but when: Calculating and communicating sea level rise effects on cultural resources in coastal Louisiana and Florida
Climate-driven depopulation and adaptation realities in America’s coastal ground zero
Investigations at the Adams Bay Site (16PL8), a Plaquemines mound complex located in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana
This paper provides an overview of the 2018 fieldwork investigations conducted at the Adams Bay site (16PL8) located in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. This Plaquemine culture mound complex (AD 1200–1500) is situated on a subsiding and eroding marsh island that is actively being destroyed. An interdisciplinary team, including archaeologists, wetlands biologists, and high school students from the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, collected …
A river runs through it”: Archaeology of Indigenous settlements in the Mississippi River Delta in southeastern Louisiana
Papers in this special thematic issue of Southeastern Archaeology consider threats posed to archaeological sites in the Mississippi River Delta in southeastern Louisiana, and they discuss archaeological finds at select sites in the region. Archaeological sites and larger landscapes in this region are indeed affected by several ongoing processes, including sea-level rise, coastal subsidence, fragmentation of wetlands, trends in the frequency and s…
Archaeology (14 works) · Geography (14 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 works) · Geology (8 works) · Excavation (7 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · History (5 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (5 works) · Conservation Techniques and Studies (4 works)