Pre-Mississippian Sedentary Settlements in the Tennessee River Valley? Evaluating the Molluscan Evidence from a Freshwater Mussel Shell Mound
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11205293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evan Peacock (0000-0001-7837-9792, Mississippi State University, corresponding author), Joseph Mitchell (0000-0003-0806-8248, Nichols College) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 123-144 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0146-1109 • E-ISSN: 2327-4271 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/23274271.50.2.02 |
| OpenAlex | W4412166924 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 55 |
The role of sedentary settlements in precontact North America has been a topic of great interest and debate among archaeologists. Recent studies investigating sedentariness have employed various seasonal and paleoenvironmental data, including from mollusks. Here we focus on terrestrial gastropods recovered, and reported on in 1942, by Morrison from the Bluff Creek site (LuO59), in northwestern Alabama. As many land snails vary in their preferred habitats, changes in species composition by depth within a site can point to environmental impacts (from Native land-use practices) as possible indicators of sedentariness. Though analysis of Morrison's snail data does not clearly show this relationship, it does reemphasize the importance of sampling and recovery methods when dealing with gastropods and the need for further utilization of these types of data, especially in understanding paleoenvironments and formation processes
Archaeology · Biology · Civil engineering · Fishery · Geography · Human settlement · Mussel · River valley · Shell (structure · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Engineering · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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| Highly cited | No |