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The Tennessee, Green, and Lower Ohio Rivers Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore (Classics Southeast Archaeology)
Clarence Moore
Paperback. University Alabama Press 2002-05.
ISBN 9780817310189
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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. Some of
the sites he found were later targeted for major excavations during 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, however, Moore's report
documents sites since destroyed by river action or by lake impoundments behind
hydroelectric dams or by looters. As with all Moore's other investigations, his
thorough documentation and collaboration with other scholars advanced
understanding of aboriginal peoples and fueled debate among 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 somewhat 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
available to contemporary scholars of history, archaeology, and anthropology a
trove of resource material on one of the most archaeologically rich and
artifact-diverse regions in the nation. This oversized reprint volume presents original materials from Clarence
Bloomfield Moore's northermost expeditions conducted in the early 1900s as he
surveyed areas of potential archaeological interest in the southeastern United
States.
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