Town Creek Indian Mound a Native American Legacy.
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, (c)1995.
- 1 online resource (797 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover Page; Town Creek Indian Mound; Copyright Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Some Names and Abbreviations; Part 1 Introduction; 1 History; 2 A Fifty-Year Program, 1937-1987; Part 2 Excavations; 3 Field Methods; 4 The Mound; 5 The Plaza; Part 3 Natural Resources; 6 Stone Available and Used; 7 Plant Resources; 8 Animal Remains; Part 4 Arts, Crafts, Tools, and Weapons; 9 Pottery; 10 Chipped and Ground Stone; 11 Pipes, Ornaments, and Implements; Part 5 Interpretations; 12 The People of Town Creek; 13 Mortuaries and Burial Practices. 14 Reconstruction of the Town House on the Mound15 Town Creek, 1937-1987; Appendix 1 Early Records of Excavations; A. Morris R. Mitchell's Letter to the Bureau of American Ethnology; B. From the Rockingham Post-Dispatch, 10 November 1927; C. Reply to Morris R. Mitchell from the Bureau of American Ethnology; D. To Morris R. Mitchell from His Mother, Alice Broadus Mitchell; E.H.M. Doerschuk's Report on the Town Creek Mound; F. Douglas L. Rights's Notes on the Richmond and Anson Sectors, 1935; G. Douglas L. Rights's Notes on Haywood Mound (Revised), 1937. Appendix 2 Analysis of Historic Artifacts and Astronomical AlignmentH. Analysis of Historic Artifacts from the Town Creek Excavations John W. Clauser, Jr.; I. Comments on Historical Artifacts from Excavations at Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site Stanley South; J. Astronomical Alignment of the Town Creek Indian Mound, Mount Gilead, North Carolina Vance Tiede; Bibliography; Index.
The temple mound and mortuary at Town Creek, in Montgomery County, is one of the few surviving earthen mounds built by prehistoric Native Americans in North Carolina. It has been recognized as an important archaeological site for almost sixty years and, as a state historic site, has become a popular destination for the public. This book is Joffre Coe's illustrated chronicle of the archaeological research conducted at Town Creek, a project with which Coe has been intimately involved for more than fifty years, since its inception as a WPA program in 1937.
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