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Archaeological Sites

Bottle Creek
From the University of South Alabama, excavations at the largest Mississippian settlement on the coast, dated AD 1100 to 1400.

Dauphin Island Shell Mounds
Mississippian period occupations, from the University of South Alabama.

Dog River
Middle Archaic period (6000-3000 BC) and Middle Gulf Formational period (1200-500 BC), as well as an early 18th century plantation site, from the University of South Alabama.

Dust Cave
From the University of Alabama, several years of field school research of Paleoindian to Archaic period occupation.

Fort Toulouse
Early 18th century French outpost on the Coosa River, from Old Mobile web site.

Ivanhoe
A Union blockade runner, sunk during the Civil War in Mobile Bay, Alabama, excavated by Florida State University.

Moundville
A Mississippian site in the Black Warrior River Valley, occupied from A.D. 1000 until A.D. 1450; from the University of Alabama Museums..
     Moundville Rural Communities in the Black Warrior Valley, Alabama: The Role of Commoners in the Creation of the Moundville I Landscape. An article abstract by Mintcy D. Maxham from American Antiquity.

Old Mobile
From the University of South Alabama, excavations at the old capital of French Louisiane, 1702-1711.

Phoenix
Confederate ironclad ram sidewheel steamship, sunk in Mobile Bay, Alabama during the Civil War.

University Programs

University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
MA, Complex societies of Native Americans

University of South Alabama
Center for Archaeological Research

Current Researchers

Vernon Knight
University of Alabama, southeastern archaeology; currently working at Moundville.

Carey Oakley
University of Alabama, CRM research in Alabama.

Cultural History

Alabama Maps
An amazing collection of historic maps from the
Cartographic Research Laboratory at the University of Alabama.

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