Bottle Creek: A Pensacola Culture Site in South Alabama - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081731220X ISBN 13: 9780817312206

Publisher: University Alabama Press, 2003

Synopsis

Consisting of 18 earthen mounds and numerous additional habitation areas dating to A.D. 12501550, the Bottle Creek site was first professionally investigated in 1932 when David L. DeJarnette of the Alabama Museum of Natural History began work there to determine if the site had a cultural reipconnected to the north by a river system. This volume builds on earlier investigations to present extensive recent data from major excavations conducted from 1991 to 1994 and supported in part by an NEH grant. Ten anthropologists examine various aspects of the site, including mound architecture, prehistoric diet, pottery classification, vessel forms, textiles used to make pottery impressions, a microlithic stone tool industry, water travel, the persistence of mound use into historic times, and the position of Bottle Creek in the protohistoric world.

About this title

About the Author:

Ian W. Brown is Professor of Anthropology at The University of Alabama and Curator of Gulf Coast Archaeology at the Alabama Museum of Natural History. He has numerous publications, including Decorated Pottery of the Lower Mississippi Valley; A Sorting Manual. David S. Brose is Director of the Schiele Museum of Natural History in North Carolina and coeditor of The Northwest Florida Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore and Societies in Eclipse.

Review:

"A valuable contribution to understanding the social, political, and ritual life of peoples in the late pre-Columbian Gulf Coast, this volume presents detailed information on one of the most important archaeological sites in the Southeast." - Cameron Wesson, University of Illinois at Chicago

About this edition

• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 081731220X
• ISBN 13: 9780817312206
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Brown Ian W.