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Southern Footprints : Exploring Gulf Coast Archaeology
Title
Southern Footprints : Exploring Gulf Coast Archaeology / Gregory A. Waselkov and Philip J. Carr ; foreward by Frye Galliard.
ISBN
9780817395230
9780817322052
9780817361532
Publication
Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2024]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2024
Copyright Notice Date
©[2024]
Physical Description
1 online resource (408 pages).
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Summary
"Southern Footprints celebrates the more than fifty years of research projects carried out by University of South Alabama archaeologists and students as well as staff at the Center for Archaeological Studies in Mobile. Their dynamic work has been public facing through programs and exhibits curated at the University of South Alabama Archaeology Museum. Archaeologists Gregory A. Waselkov, former director of the Center, and Philip J. Carr, current director of the Center, present the "greatest hits" that have transformed knowledge of human history on the Alabama and Mississippi Gulf Coast from the Ice Age until recently. Of the hundreds of archaeological sites, premiere historic sites, such as Old Mobile and Holy Ground, are now archaeological preserves. Essays are arranged chronologically overall and survey the history and archaeology of a wide range of significant sites such as the Gulf Shores canoe canal, Bottle Creek Mounds, Old Mobile, Fort Mims, Spanish Fort, Spring Hill College, and Mobile River Bridge. Waselkov and Carr take care to acknowledge in these stories populations who are typically underdocumented and recognize the contributions of Native Americans and African Americans as uncovered through archaeology. While documenting all material culture and places that have been saved and preserved, they also note the dire impacts of climate change, environmental disasters, development, and neglect and share their urgency to protect these areas of shared history. Copious color photographs showcase the archaeology as it unfolded, often with the help of dedicated volunteers. Southern Footprints will serve as an indispensable reference on the rich Gulf heritage for all to appreciate"-- Provided by publisher.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 10, 2024
Contents
Intro
Contents
Foreword by Frye Gaillard
Acknowledgments
An Introduction to the Archaeology of South Alabama and the Central Gulf Coast
Part I. South Alabama
1. The Archaeology Museum at the University of South Alabama
2. Greater Mobile-Tensaw River Area
Part II. Site Discovery
3. Coastal Surveys
4. Surveys of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta and Mobile Bay
5. National Forest Surveys
Part III. Archaic Period (9500-1000 BC)
6. John Forrest Site
7. Lincoln County Mound
8. Silver Run
Part IV. Woodland Period (1000 BC-AD 1150)
9. Gulf Shores Canoe Canal
10. Bayou St. John
11. Clarke County
Part V. Mississippian Period (AD 1150-1700)
12. Bottle Creek Mounds
13. Dauphin Island Shell Mounds
14. McInnis Site
15. Dugout Canoes
Part VI. French Colonial Period (1699-1763)
16. Old Mobile
17. Port Dauphin
18. Fort Conde
Part VII. Colonial Plantations
19. La Pointe-Krebs Plantation
20. Bon Secour River Sites
21. Riviere aux Chiens Plantation
22. Augustin Rochon Plantation
23. Lisloy Plantation
24. The Village
25. Water Street, Mobile
Part VIII. Late Colonial/Early Federal Period (1764-1859)
26. The Southeast in 1773
27. Exploreum Science Center and History Museum of Mobile
28. Historic Blakeley Park
29. Fort Mims
30. Ekvncakv/Holy Ground
31. Old St. Stephens
Part IX. Civil War Era (1860-1868)
32. Africatown Visitor Center
33. Camp Withers
34. Spanish Fort
35. 1865 Ordnance Explosion
Part X. Late Nineteenth Century
36. Spring Hill College
37. Eastern Shore Potteries
38. Mount Vernon
39. Lucrecia Perryman's Well
Part XI. Modern Times (1900-Present)
40. Bayou La Batre
41. I-10 Mobile River Bridge
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
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