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He will be missed sorely by all of us.
He is survived by his wife Mary, his life-long partner whom he fondly referred to as “the beast.” The clarity in his writing owes much to the painstaking editing she did on almost all of his manuscripts.
edited by Michael J. O'Brien and Robert C.
Dunnell
contributions by Timothy K. Perttula, David W. Benn, Patrick T. McCutcheon, Carol A. Morrow, Diana M. Greenlee, Gregory L. Fox, Paul P. Kreisa, David H. Dye, Robert C. Mainfort, Jr., Michael C. Moore, Robert H. Lafferty and Patrice A. Teltser
University of Alabama Press, 1998
Paper: 978-0-8173-0909-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8417-3
Library of Congress Classification E99.M6815C53 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 977.01
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Fourteen experts examine the current state of Central Valley prehistoric research and provide an important touchstone for future archaeological study of the region
The Mississippi Valley region has long played a critical role in the development of American archaeology and continues to be widely known for the major research of the early 1950s.
He was a professor of anthropology at the University of Washingtonuntil his retirement in 1996 afterwhich he was emeritus at the University of Washington as well as MississippiState University.
Among Dunnell's contribution to archaeology was the recognition of the role the theory of biologicalevolution as a means of explainingcultural phenomena.
Through the Lens of the Lithic Analyst: The Organization of Mississippi
Delta Chipped-Stone Technologies
Philip J. Carr
11. Operating at the cutting edge of current research strategies, these archaeologists provide a fresh look at old problems in central Mississippi Valley research.
Michael J.
O'Brien is Professor of Anthropology and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Robert C. Dunnell is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington.
"Archaeologists and others interested in the region will find important summaries of data relating to a series of mound centers and other localities that would, in and of themselves, justify the purchase of the volume.
Full understanding of artifacts requires knowledge of their physics and chemistry, and this led him to embrace the field of archaeometry. Almost all of his students at one time or another spent a 100°F+ summer with him in Southeast Missouri, doing survey and surface collection from plowed fields. A fine collection of papers of real and material value."
—American Anthropologist
— -- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1.
- A Brief Introduction to the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi River Valley
- O'Brien, Michael J.
- Dunnell, Robert C.
- 2.
- An Examination of Mississippian-Period Phases in Southeastern Missouri
- 3.
- Pottery, Radiocarbon Dates, and Mississippian-Period Chronology Building in Western Kentucky
- 4.
- An Overview of Walls Engraved Pottery in the Central Mississippi Valley
- 5.
- Graves Lake: A Late Mississippian–Period Village in Lauderdale County, Tennessee
- Mainfort, Robert C., Jr.
- Moore, Michael C.
- 6.
- Landscape Change and Settlement Location in the Cairo Lowland of Southeastern Missouri
- 7.
- Nonsite Survey in the Cairo Lowland of Southeastern Missouri
- 8.
- Powers Fort: A Middle Mississippian–Period Fortified Community in the Western Lowlands of Missouri
- 9.
- The Langdon Site, Dunklin County, Missouri
- 10.
- Moon: A Fortified Mississippian–Period Village in Poinsett County, Arkansas
- 11.
- Variability in Crowley's Ridge Gravel
- McCutcheon, Patrick T.
- Dunnell, Robert C.
- 12.
- Blade Technology and Nonlocal Cherts: Hopewell(?) Traits at the Twenhafel Site, Southern Illinois
- 13.
- Prehistoric Diet in the Central Mississippi River Valley
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List of Figures
List of Tables
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Culturalevolution is vitalistic and assumes a direction to the nature of change. Archaeological Things: Languages of Observation
Robert C. Dunnell
5. Archaeology in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Robert C. Dunnell
4. Dunnell’s cantankerous and sometimes awkward demeanor was well-known.
Fording the River: Concluding Comments
Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock
References Cited
List of Contributors
Index
Who was Robert Dunnell?
Robert ChesterDunnell was an archaeologistknown for his contribution in archaeological systematics, measurement and explanation of the archaeological record, evolutionaryarchaeology and the archaeology of easternNorthAmericaDunnellreceived his PhD from Yale University in 1967.
In many cases, these courses were life-changing experiences for the students.
Systematics, the study of classification and unit formation, was the subject of Dr. Dunnell’s early book, Systematics in Prehistory (1971), which lay a foundation for studying the archaeological record in a scientific fashion.
Paleoethnobotanical Information and Issues Relevant to the I-69 Overview
Process, Northwest Mississippi
Gayle J. Fritz
15. For example, references to the bet-hedging concept for understanding monumental architecture and other cultural elaborations, a concept that stems from Dr. Dunnell’s attempt to understand Hopewell elaborations as energetic “waste,” are appearing more and more in the literature.
His contributions were broader than in just theoretical archaeology.
. Ceramic Petrography and the Classification of Mississippi's
Archaeological Pottery by Fabric: A GIS Approach
Michael L. Galaty
13. A long-term goal of his was to write a definitive prehistory of the East. Sad Song in the Delta: The Potential for Historical Archaeology in the I-
69 Corridor
Amy L.
Young
18. Among his achievements in this area was the founding of the Luminescence Dating Laboratory in the department in 1983, a laboratory I am happy to report is still going strong after nearly 30 years.
Dr. Dunnell started in archaeology as a teenager growing up in West Virginia, his work even appearing in a local newspaper at age fourteen.
Culture Contact along the I-69 Corridor: Protohistoric and Historic Use
of the Northern Yazoo Basin, Mississippi
Ian W. Brown
17.