Archaeological Investigations in the Choctaw Homeland

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ID2575400
AuthorsJerome A Vo, Jerome A Voss, J H Blitz (0000-0001-9706-4526)
Year1988
Volume53
Issue1
Pages125-145
Publication date1988-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/281159
OpenAlexW2007837728
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited13

With a focus on the archaeology of the early historic Choctaw, field investigations in east-central Mississippi resulted in the discovery of 73 sites and the confirmation of two previously known sites. Fifty-nine of the 75 sites had either definite or probable Choctaw components. The assemblages on the historic Choctaw sites typically consisted of a complex of four decorated and four undecorated Native American ceramic types along with Euro-American trade goods that suggest site occupation dates during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The better preserved Choctaw phase sites typically were small artifact clusters, probably the remains of individual households, located on low ridges. In several places these sites were grouped in clusters suggestive of the dispersed communities described in historical accounts of the Choctaw. None of the sites has yielded evidence suggestive of sociopolitical centrality

Archaeology · Artifact (error · Centrality · Ethnology · Geography · Homeland · Political science · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law

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