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The Glass Mounds site (40WM3) in Williamson County is the only known Woodland period multi-mound center in the Cumberland River drainage of Tennessee. Historic land use practices during the twentieth century destroyed the majority of the site, and today Glass Mounds survives only as two conical earthworks. Although the site has been the subject of...
This revised edition of the Rutherford-Kizer site report presents the results of salvage excavations at a late prehistoric mound and village site in Sumner County, Tennessee.
Original edition, 2001, edited by Michael C. Moore and Kevin E. Smith
Revised Digital Edition, 2016
Antiquarian and modern explorations within the Middle Cumberland region of Tennessee have uncovered vast quantities of ceramic, stone, bone, and shell artifacts. Objects made from mineral resources represent a modest percentage of the overall artifact assemblage. Specimens manufactured from crystals comprise a very small portion of the mineral samp...
Antiquarian and modern explorations within the Middle Cumberland region of Tennessee have uncovered vast quantities of ceramic, stone, bone, and shell artifacts. Objects made from mineral resources represent a modest percentage of the overall artifact assemblage. Specimens manufactured from crystals comprise a very small portion of the mineral samp...
When European explorers began their initial forays into southeastern North America in the 16th and 17th centuries they encountered what they called temples and shrines of native peoples, often decorated with idols in human form made of wood, pottery, or stone. The idols were fascinating to write about, but having no value to explorers searching for...
Archaeological dating of ancient objects by radioisotopic methods is very well established. However, it is not routinely accessible for archaeological research. Fluoride dating is a simple and inexpensive method that relies on the fact that faunal remains buried underground absorb fluoride ions from the soil over time and hence there is a linear co...
Archaeological research on Mississippian culture in Tennessee's Middle Cumberland region during recent years has provided a revised chronological sequence as well as new information about settlement shifts. Excavations at one fortified Mississippian town, Gordontown, and a reanalysis of past site investigations from the late nineteenth and early tw...
