The Tennessee, Green, and Lower Ohio Rivers Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore (Classics Southeast Archaeology)

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This richly illustrated book is the eighth of nine Classics in Southeastern Archaeology volumes based on Moore’s investigations along the waterways of eastern North The us.

This oversized reprint volume presents original materials from Moore’s northernmost expeditions conducted in the early 1900s as he surveyed areas of potential archaeological interest in the southeastern United States. One of the sites he found were later targeted for major excavations all the way through the days of the WPA/CCC. Many National Register Historic Sites are today located along the rivers he explored in this work. In many cases, on the other hand, Moore’s report documents sites since destroyed by river action or by lake impoundments at the back of hydroelectric dams or by looters.

As with all of Moore’s other investigations, his thorough documentation and collaboration with other scholars advanced understanding of aboriginal peoples and fueled debate a number of the experts. For instance, more than 296 burials were recovered from Indian Knoll on the Green River in Kentucky. Some graves included ceremonially “killed” artifacts, dogs buried with both adults and children, and exotic materials leading to speculations concerning origins, usage, and trade networks. Stone box graves were widespread and slightly exclusive to this area, giving rise to early assumptions regarding kinship between scattered modern Indian tribes.

Richard Polhemus has compiled a comprehensive inventory of Moore’s work in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky and written a concise introduction to place the work in context. In so doing, he has made to be had to recent scholars of history, archaeology, and anthropology a trove of resource material on probably the most archaeologically rich and artifact-diverse regions in the nation.

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