Bottle Creek: A Pensacola Culture Site in South Alabama

Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 16
Foreword......Page 18
Preface......Page 26
Acknowledgments......Page 28
1. Introduction to the Bottle Creek Site......Page 34
2. Out of the Moundville Shadow: The Origin and Evolution of Pensacola Culture......Page 60
3. A Proposed Construction Sequence of the Mound B Terrace at Bottle Creek......Page 96
4. Historic Aboriginal Reuse of a Mississippian Mound, Mound L at Bottle Creek......Page 117
5. Food Plant Remains from Excavations in Mounds A, B, C, D, and L at Bottle Creek......Page 136
6. The Use of Plants in Mound-Related Activities at Bottle Creek and Moundville......Page 147
7. Zooarchaeological Remains from Bottle Creek......Page 163
8. A Functional Comparison of Pottery Vessel Shapes from Bottle Creek......Page 189
9. The Bottle Creek Microlithic Industry......Page 201
10. Matting and Pliable Fabrics from Bottle Creek......Page 213
11. Water Travel and Mississippian Settlement at Bottle Creek......Page 227
12. Concluding Thoughts on Bottle Creek and Its Position in the Mississippian World......Page 238
A. Archaeological Phases Represented at the Bottle Creek Site......Page 260
B. Radiocarbon Dates Secured at the Bottle Creek Site......Page 264
References Cited......Page 266
Contributors......Page 294
Index......Page 298