Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi

308 Pages·1990·15.41 MB·English

by  David H. Dye

Towns and Temples
Along the Mississippi

Towns and Temples
Along the Mississippi
Edited by
David H. Dye
and
Cheryl Anne Cox
A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication
The University ofA labama Press
Tuscaloosa • London
Copyright © 1990 by
The University of Alabama Press
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Towns and temples along the Mississippi / edited by David H. Dye
and Cheryl A Cox.
p. cm.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-8173-0455-X (alk. paper)
1. Mississippian culture. 2. Indians of North America
Mississippi River Valley-Architecture. I. Dye, David H.
II. Cox, Cheryl Anne. 1953-
E99.M6815T68 1990
977'.00497--cic20 89-32994
CIP
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Available
Contents
Figures vii
Tables ix
Preface xi
Introduction 1
1
James B. Griffin
Comments on the Late Prehistoric Societies in the Southeast 5
2
GeorgeJ. Arme1agos and M. Cassandra Hill
An Evaluation of the Biocultural Consequences
of the Mississippian 'fransformation 16
3
R. Barry Lewis
The Late Prehistory of the Ohio-Mississippi Rivers Confluence Region,
Kentucky and Missouri 38
4
James E. Price and Cynthia R. Price
ProtohistoriclEarly Historic Manifestations in
Southeastern Missouri 59
5
DanRMorse
The Nodena Phase 69
6
Mary Lucas Powell
Health and Disease at Nodena: A Late Mississippian Community in
Northeastern Arkansas 98
7
Phyllis A. Morse
The Parkin Site and the Parkin Phase 118
8
Gerald P. Smith
The Walls Phase and Its Neighbors 135
9
Stephen Williams
The Vacant Quarter and Other Late Events in the Lower Valley 170
10
Charles Hudson, Marvin T. Smith, and Chester B. DePratter
The Hernando de Soto Expedition:
From Mabila to the Mississippi River 181
11
Michael P. Hoffman
The Terminal Mississippian Period in the Arkansas River Valley and
Quapaw Ethnogenesis 208
12
IanW.Brown
Historic Indians of the Lower Mississippi Valley:
An Archaeologist's View 227
13
George E Fielder,Jr.
Comprehensive Planning for the Protection and Preservation of
Mississippian Sites in Tennessee 239
References 246
Contributors 280
Index 284
Figures
2-1. Model for the Interpretation of Stress Indicators in
Paleoepidemiological Research 17
2-2. Mississippian Culture Area ca. A.D. 1400 24
2-3. Time Spans of Analyses of Populations from the
Eastern United States 26
3-1. Mississippi Period Sites in the Ohio-Mississippi Rivers
Confluence Region 39
3-2. The Late Prehistoric Chronological Sequence in the
Ohio-Mississippi Rivers Confluence Region 41
3-3. Topographic Map of the Adams Site 46
3-4. Reconstruction of the Adams Site Mound Group 47
3-5. Vertical Profile of Test Unit 1 at the Adams Site 49
3-6. Late Mississippi Period Ceramics 50
3-7. Rim Profiles 51
3-8. Plan of Subfloor Features, Structure 4, Hess Site 52
5-1. Upper Nodena Site 71
5-2. Nodena Phase Sites 79
5-3. Nodena Phase Vessel Forms 89
5-4. Nodena Phase Vessel Forms 91
5-5. Nodena Phase Vessel Forms 92
5-6. Nodena Phase Chipped-and Ground-Stone Tools 93
6-1. Comparison of Demographic Profiles of
Three Amerindian Population Samples 103
6-2. Healing Caries Sicca in Adult Female Cranium from
Upper Nodena 109
6-3. Percentage of Enamel Hypoplasis Lesions Formed at Given
Postnatal Developmental Ages for Upper and Middle Nodena 115
7-1. Contour Map of the Parkin Site 122
7-2. Distribution of Parkin Phase Sites 124
8-1. Basic Vessel Forms, Northern Delta Regional 1fadition 136
8-2. Basic Vessel Forms, Northern Delta Regional 1fadition 137
8-3. Distinguishing Walls Phase Ceramic Types 138
8-4. Walls and Adjacent Phases 139
8-5. Configuration of Sherd Type Frequencies by Phases 141
8-6. The Walls Phase 142
8-7. The Boxtown Phase 148
8-8. Vessel Forms Characteristic of Specific Phases 149
8-9. The Commerce Phase 150
8-10. The Tipton Phase 152
8-11. The Jones Bayou Phase 154
8-12. The Early and Late Kent Phases 156
8-13. The Horseshoe Lake Phase 158
8-14. The Cramor Phase 160
8-15. The Nodena Phase 162
8-16. The Pemiscot Bayou and Campbell Phases 163
9-1. The Vacant Quarter: The Southeastern United States
ca. A.D. 1500 174
10-1. The de Soto Route from Athahachi to Quizquiz 182
10-2. De Soto in the Black Warrior River Drainage 185
11-1. Quapaw Indian ca. 1700 210
11-2. Protohistoric Phases Along the Arkansas River 217
12-1. Various Historic Indian Sites in the Southern Portion
of the Lower Mississippi Valley 228
Tables
2-1. Cross-cultural Secular Trends of Selected Stress Indicators 25
3-1. Ohio-Mississippi Rivers Confluence Region
Late Mississippi Period Radiocarbon Dates 45
4-1. Sherd Percentages in Surface Collections from
Three Protohistoric-Historic Sites in Southeastern Missouri 64
6-1. Percentages of Nodena Individuals Represented by
Cranial and Postcranial Remains 100
6-2. Demographic Profile of the Nodena Skeletal Series 102
6-3. Prevalence of Periostitis in Long Bones 108
6-4. Molar Occlusal Wear 112
6-5. Prevalence of Dental Caries and Antemortem Tooth Loss
in Four Prehistoric Amerindian Populations 113
6-6. Caries Prevalence by Tooth Type 113
6-7. Caries Prevalence by Loci 114
7-1. Diagnostic Types Used by Brain et al. 1974 129
8-1. Species CompOSition of Potential Meat Supply at Chucalissa 146