By Joffre Lanning Coe
ISBN-10: 0807821764
ISBN-13: 9780807821763
The temple mound and mortuary at city Creek, in Montgomery County, is likely one of the few surviving earthen mounds equipped by means of prehistoric local americans in North Carolina. it's been famous as a massive archaeological web site for nearly sixty years and, as a country old web site, has turn into a well-liked vacation spot for the general public. This publication is Joffre Coe's illustrated chronicle of the archaeological learn performed at city Creek, a venture with which Coe has been in detail concerned for greater than fifty years, on the grounds that its inception as a WPA application in 1937.
Written for viewers in addition to for students, Town Creek Indian Mound presents an summary of the location and the archaeological thoughts pioneered there, surveys the historical past of the excavations, and lines greater than 2 hundred pictures and maps. The publication conscientiously reconstructs the archaeological checklist, together with plant and animal is still, pottery sherds, stone instruments, and clay embellishes. In a concluding interpretive part, Coe displays on what city Creek and its artifacts let us know approximately this prehistoric local American society.
Originally released in 1995.
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This was probably done sometime in the late iSoo's" (Trinkley 1987 [TCA]). There is little doubt that two of the pots in this collection are the same as those Rights described and illustrated in 1935. Again, the collector was Robert L. Steele (fig. 1). It remains uncertain, however, that any of these pots had actually been found at the Town Creek site. Since the vessel presented to the Smithsonian Institution was identified in 1884 as having been washed out by a freshet near Stanback's Ferry in Richmond County, it is possible that the other three pots in Steele's possession also came from the same area.
3). Unfortunately, records of all these earlier excavations and samplings are both scarce and inaccurate. For example, Mitchell described the mound as 60 feet square and 15 feet tall. London, who worked with Mitchell, described the mound as a cone 75 feet in diameter and 40 feet high. Rights saw the same mound as circular, 90 feet in diameter, and 6 feet high. Actually, the mound was no feet square and 12 feet high. Both Rights and Doerschuk found glass trade beads on the surface and within the mound.
The response, dated ca. 11 November, from J. G. Fraylor acting chief clerk of the Smithsonian, was based on information supplied by Frank H. H. , a young archaeologist on the Bureau of American Ethnology staff. In a polite way, Fraylor suggested that the general policy is to discourage the digging of mounds by amateurs. " [SHC] Interest remained high, and at about this same time Mitchell's wife, Grace, wrote to his mother, Alice Broadus Mitchell, in Richmond, Virginia, describing his excavation project.
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