Download or read book Phase II Archeological Investigations at Sharpley s Bottom Historic Sites Tombigbee River Multi resource District Alabama and Mississippi written by John R. Kern and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sharpley s Bottom Historic Sites Interdisciplinary Investigations Tombigbee River Multi Resource District Alabama and Mississippi Phase II Archeological Investigations written by J. R. Kern and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report summarizes archeological investigations of Sharpley's Bottom historic sites on the Tombigbee Water-way in Monroe County, Mississippi. Formerly the location of a 1,400-acre slave plantation, Sharpley's Bottom became a tenant farming community which endured in relative isolation and economic deprivation from the 1860s until around 1960 when cotton cultivation was no longer profitable for landlords on the Tombigbee. Phase I archeological survey conducted in 1980 located 21 historic sites in Sharpley's Bottom. Phase II archeological field work conducted in 1981 tested 11 of those sites to evaluate site integrity and to address research questions regarding the transition from slavery to tenancy, the expansion of cash crop tenancy in the Bottom, and changes in tenant economic status. Though rich archival evidence on cotton tenancy was discovered and reported separately in Phase II historical investigations, the archeological field work and analysis did not produce sufficient material culture data to reconstruct a picture of antebellum slave life, nor could the sparse archeological record be used to generate significant conclusions regarding site by site distinctions in tenant life or changes in tenant life overtime. For these reasons, additional Phase III archeological investigations were not recommended. Despite the project's recovery of a meager artifact assemblage, the examination of Sharpley's Bottom material culture has recorded the perserverance of a tenant farming community which survived for a century after the Civil War, and the study has raised important questions concerning archeological visibility and salvage within the context of the sustained rural poverty of cotton tenancy. (Author).
Download or read book Sharpley s Bottom Historic Sites Phase I Interdisciplinary Investigations Tombigbee River Multi Resource District Alabama and Mississippi written by John R. Kern and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses 1980-1981 Phase I interdisciplinary investigations of the Sharpley's Bottom historic sites on the Tombigbee Waterway in Monroe County, Mississippi. Sharpley's Bottom is so named because of its occupation from the 1860s to the 1880s by W.B. Sharpley, a white slaveholder who cohabited with one of his slaves and later willed his Bottom Land to his mixed race children. The study has been distinguished by the wealth of historical material available on the Bottom, by the use of black and white oral historians respectively to interview black and white informants, and by the use of specialists in history, folk housing and oral history to assist in the archeological survey and interpretation of the historic sites. The methods and training of history, folk culture and historical archeology have been combined to analyze how an isolated and predominantly black community of tenant farmers evolved after the abolition of slavery and how that community endured until the demise of cotton tenancy. The report concludes with recommendations for Phase II historical and oral history research and for intensive investigation of 14 of the 22 located historic sites.
Download or read book The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life written by Theresa A Singleton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represented a compilation of interdisciplinary research being done throughout the American South and the Caribbean by historians, archaeologists, architects, anthropologists, and other scholars on the topic of slavery and plantations. It synthesizes materials known through the 1980s and reports on key sites of excavation and survey in the Carolinas, Barbados, Louisiana and other locations. Contributors include many of the leading figures in historical archaeology.
Download or read book An Archaeological Overview of the Tombigbee River Basin Alabama and Mississippi written by Eugene M. Futato and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Archaeological Investigations at the East Aberdeen Site 22Mo819 written by Janet E. Rafferty and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East Aberdeen site, in Monroe Co., Mississippi, was located on two topographic high spots near the Tombigbee River, with the culture-bearing deposit composed of dark brown sandy earth one to three meters in depth. Early, Middle, and Late Archaic and Miller II and III components were identified, with the Late Archaic Benton phase component being the most extensive and significant. One Benton level yielded a radiocarbon data of ca. 3500 B.C. The main resource used throughout the prehistoric period was hickory nuts; deer, turkey and turtle were the most common animal remains. The site was used as a base camp during Benton times and as a transitory camp during the other periods. The site, then known as Martin's Bluff, was again used beginning in 1830, as documented by an historic records search and archaeological work. It was a ferry and steamboat landing, with a store, warehouses, wheat mill, and residences, until 1873, when it declined due to construction of a bridge across the river. The site saw a resurgence during the 1920s when a sawmill was built nearby. The archaeological work produced data on residences, diet, and shifting site use during the period. (Author).
Download or read book Archaeological Investigations at Shell Bluff and White Springs Two Late Woodland Sites in the Tombigbee River Multi Resource District written by Eugene M. Futato and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Archaeological Testing Investigations at 58 Sites in the River and Canal Sections of the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway written by Judith Ann Bense and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeological Testing at Two Rockshelters in the Tombigbee River Multi Resource District Alabama and Mississippi written by J. M. Adovasio and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
