NATCHEZ TRACE PARKWAY
Excavations at the Pharr Mounds and the Bear Creek Site
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Pharr Mounds

Cover

Preface

The site and its setting

The excavations

Methods
Mound H
Mound A
Mound D
Mound E
Habitation area

Description of ceramics

Ceramic analysis

Chipped stone artifacts

Other artifacts and materials

Comparisons and relationships

Dating the site

Summary and conclusions

References



LIST OF FIGURES
1 Vicinity map
2 Site map
3 Mound H plan
4 Mound A plan and profile
5 Mound D plan and profile
6 Mound E plan and profile
7 Schematic profile of Mound E
8 Photographs of Mounds D and B
9 Excavations at Mound A
10 Excavations at Mound E
11 Features at Mound E (omitted from the online edition)
12 Restored vessels
13 Restored vessels
14 Projectile points and blades
15 Projectile points
16 Limestone tempered pottery
17 Miscellaneous chipped stone artifacts
18 Miscellaneous sand tempered pottery
19 Sand tempered pottery
20 Silver plating from conjoined tubes
21 Spool-shaped artifacts
22 Platform pipes
23 Miscellaneous artifacts


LIST OF TABLES
1 Provenience of partial, nearly complete, and complete pottery vessels
2 Percentage distribution of sherds
3 Seriation of Jennings' (1940) surface collections of sherds
4 Seriation of sherds from mounds at Bynum and Pharr
5 Provenience of sherds
6 Provenience of chipped stone artifacts
7 Provenience of other artifacts and materials



Bear Creek

Preface

The site and its setting

The excavations

Methods
The mound
The village

Subsistence

Ceramics

Artifacts

Projectile points
Other chipped stone artifacts
Ground stone artifacts
Other artifacts and miscellaneous materials

Summary

References



LIST OF FIGURES
1 Location map
2 Plan of excavations in mound and village
3 Plan and cross section of mound
4 Stages of mound construction
5 Houses
6 Burials (omitted from the online edition)
7 The mound in 1950 and 1965
8 Houses and partially excavated pit
9 Shell tempered pottery sherds
10 Miscellaneous pottery sherds
11 Pottery vessels
12 Projectile points
13 Miscellaneous artifacts
14 Miscellaneous chipped stone artifacts
15 Miscellaneous chipped stone artifacts


LIST OF TABLES
l Provenience of pottery sherds
2 Provenience of pottery vessels
3 Provenience of projectile points and other chipped stone artifacts
4 Provenience of ground stone artifacts, other artifacts, and miscellaneous materials


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