The Georgia and South Carolina Coastal Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore (Classics Southeast Archaeology)

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A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication

This facsimile edition of Moore’s Georgia and South Carolina expeditions includes an extensive new introduction from Georgia’s senior archaeologist.

This compilation of Clarence Bloomfield Moore’s investigations along the wealthy coastal and river drainages of Georgia and South Carolina makes
available in a single volume valuable works published a century ago. By up to date standards Moore’s excavation techniques were crude, but his results were nothing lower than spectacular. He recorded data with care, and much information can also be learned from his works. In some cases his publications are the only documentation extant for sites that have since been destroyed. In one case, relic collectors had destroyed six mounds at Mason’s Plantation—the largest Mississippian center in the Savannah River valley—by the point Moore visited the website online in 1897.

Moore also documented prehistoric urn burials, a ritual widely practiced in eastern North The us but more incessantly at the Gulf Coastal Plain
of Alabama and coastal sites in Georgia and South Carolina. In the introduction, Lewis Larson discusses Moore’s investigations within the framework of the present understanding of Georgia and South Carolina coastal archaeological chronology.

 

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