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Description of the artifactsessay 1997 • Morse, Dan F.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
Morse describes the various artifacts found at the Sloan site, the various types of cherts and the locations of the chert sources used to make the stone tools. The archaeologists found stone tools, points, one ironstone object, some ochre stains, but...An overview of the Dalton period in northeastern Arkansas and in the southeastern United Statesessay 1997 • Morse, Dan F.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
Morse describes the history of the term Dalton, its dating, and describes a few other Dalton sites. There are more Dalton sites and points known in northeastern Arkansas than elsewhere and so Morse describes land use, settlement patterns, community s...Summaryessay 1997 • Morse, Dan F.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
Morse summarizes what was discovered during the excavation at the Sloan site and what is known about the Dalton subtradition based on the analyses of the data....An Arkansas viewessay 1996 • Morse, Dan F.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
Morse also comments on the papers in this volume (eHRAF numbers 2-25). Morse looks at previous Dalton research and Paleoindian research in the United States in general. He offers suggestions for where future research should head....References citedessay 1997 • Morse, Dan F.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
These are the references cited in documents nos. 54-63....Excavation of the Sloan siteessay 1997 • Morse, Dan F. & Morse, Phyllis A.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
Morse and Morse describe the discovery of the Sloan site, its excavation, and the collection of artifacts and soil samples. There were numerous difficulties in excavating the site including severe weather, lack of funding, and trying to excavate whil...Preliminary investigation of the Pinson Mounds Siteessay 1986 • Morse, Dan F. & Kwas, Mary L.
Eastern Middle Woodland • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This appendix describes the limited test excavations and surface collections Morse conducted at Pinson Mound in 1963. He examined six of the mounds, two habitation areas, and the large enclosure (the Eastern Citadel). He found evidence that the site ...The Pleistocene-Holocene transition in the eastern United Statesessay 1996 • Morse, Dan F. et al.
Early Paleo-Indian • New World > New World
The authors discuss the paleoenvironment and the evidence for early settlement patterns and land use in the Eastern United States, from Little Salt Spring in Florida to Rodgers Shelter in Missouri (Late Paleo-Indian Dalton subtradition, taken to have...Provenience of artifactsessay 1997 • Morse, Dan F. et al.
Late Paleo-Indian • North America > General North America
Morse et al. analyze the spatial patterning of the artifacts and the bone at the site to confirm the interpretation that Sloan was a cemetery and to determine how many individuals may have been buried there. Each artifact cluster is described. The di...Pinson Moundsbook chapter 1986 • Mainfort, Robert C. et al.
Eastern Middle Woodland • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Mainfort describes previous research at Pinson Mounds and his own excavations for the Tennessee Department of Conservation, Division of Archaeology. 'The Pinson Mounds site includes at least 12 mounds (some of them were large platform mounds and othe...