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Stratigraphic and Area Tests at the Emerald and Anna Mound Sites*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

John L. Cotter
John L. Cotter*
Affiliation:
Natchez Trace Parkway, National Park Service, Tupelo, Mississippi
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The tests made at the Emerald mound site (MAd-5; also known as the Selzertown site) located on the proposed right-of-way of Natchez Trace Parkway twelve miles north of Natchez, Mississippi, were performed in order to salvage archaeological information and cultural materials along the route of roadway construction. The work was confined to two stratigraphic tests and one area test, the former on the primary mound and the latter in the area to the south of the primary mound assumed to have been a village site. By the area test it was hoped to demonstrate or disprove the existence of a village site associated with the great mound and to salvage data in the path of Parkway construction which was projected immediately south of the base of the primary mound. By the stratigraphic tests it was hoped that the cultural identity of the builders of the primary mound and the adjoining village site could be established.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 17 , Issue 1Part1 , July 1951 , pp. 18 - 32
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1951

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Footnotes

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For assistance and cooperation acknowledgment is gratefully made: To the Mississippi State Highway Department for permission to work at Emerald; To Col. John H. Stowers, owner of the Anna site for his freely given permission to work there; To Supt. Malcolm Gardner and staff of the Natchez Trace Parkway, particularly Engineering Aide Holditch, for technical assistance; and to James A. Ford, James B. GrifEn, Jesse D. Jennings, Alex D. Krieger, Philip Phillips, George I. Quimby, Albert C. Spaulding, and Gordon R. Willey for assistance with pottery typing.

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Work reported here constitutes a unit of the program of the Archaeological Survey Project for the Natchez Trace Parkway, National Park Service.

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