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The Rose Island site and the bifurcate point traditionBook 1975 • Chapman, Jefferson
Eastern Early Archaic • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Chapman presents a preliminary site report for the excavations at Rose Island. The Early Archaic strata are deeply buried. The site was occupied off and on until 1200 A.D., but only the data that pertain to the Early Archaic were indexed for OCM (Out...The Bacon Farm site and a buried site reconnaissanceBook 1978 • Chapman, Jefferson
Eastern Early Archaic • North America > Eastern Woodlands
More than 350 backhoe trenches were excavated along the Little Tennessee River to locate buried sites to generate a settlement pattern and to test 'the validity of the location model' (page 2) of where buried sites should be found on alluvial terrace...Candy Creek-Connestee components in eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina and their relationship with Adena-Hopewellessay 1979 • Chapman, Jefferson & Keel, Bennie C.
Hopewell • North America > Eastern Woodlands
The Connestee phase has evidence of artifacts (including some pottery) and ideas that relate directly to Ohio Hopewell. Chapman describes several sites from this phase that are found in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. They appear to hav...Archaic period research in the lower Little Tennessee River Valley, 1975book chapter 1977 • Chapman, Jefferson et al.
Eastern Early Archaic • North America > Eastern Woodlands
The 1975 excavations were conducted to locate and to test for buried Archaic sites on certain alluvial bottoms within the proposed Tellico Reservoir. '…[T]he report is essentially descriptive with limited discussion of the artifact categories and the...Appendixbook chapter 1977 • Foley, Lucy & Chapman, Jefferson
Eastern Early Archaic • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Foley and Chapman conducted stratigraphic investigations at three sites on the first alluvial terrace of the Little Tennessee River. They did detailed drawings of the stratigraphy and described the soils and living surfaces. Human occupation began ab...