9 research outputs found
Prehistoric Farmers of the Washita River Valley: Settlement and Subsistence Patterns During the Plains Village Period. Robert L. Brooks, Richard R. Drass, and Fern E. Swenson. Archeological Resource Survey Report, No. 23, Oklahoma Archeological Survey, Norman, 1985. xiv + 162 pp., figures, tables, appendix, references. $6.00 (paper).
No full textArcheology of Mississippi. Calvin S. Brown. University of Mississippi Press, Jackson, 1992. xxii + 372 pp., figures, index. Originally published 1926. ’19.95 (paper).
No full textTaking it to the River: Arkansas Novaculite Quarrying and Archaic Period Tool Production
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The Holly Bluff style
No full textWe recognize a new style of Mississippian-period art in the North American Southeast, calling it Holly Bluff. It is a two-dimensional style of representational art that appears solely on containers: marine shell cups and ceramic vessels. Iconographically, the style focuses on the depiction of zoomorphic supernatural powers of the Beneath World. Seriating the known corpus of images allows us to characterize three successive style phases, Holly Bluff I, II, and III. Using limited data, we source the style to the northern portion of the lower Mississippi Valley
