Mississippi

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Archaeological Sites

Bayspring
Early 19th century town and gristmill site, excavated and reported by William H. Adams.

Little Spanish Fort
Late Archaic through Mississippian period large, semicircular earthen enclosure located in the Lower Yazoo Basin, Mississippi, an article by H. Edwin Jackson in the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology.

University Programs

Cobb Institute of Archaeology
Mississippi State University, southeastern U.S., especially Mississippi. Recent work includes the Sanders site, a Late Gulf Formation Period (850 to 400 B.C.) shell midden, and historic archaeology at the Choctaw Agency.

University of Southern Mississippi
Field school investigations at three sites associated with early 19th century slave practices, an article in African American Archaeology Newsletter.

University of Mississippi University
MA, Classical Civilization

Current Researchers

Evan Peacock
Woodland Ceramic Affiliations and Settlement Pattern Change in the North Central Hills of Mississippi, an article abstract in the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology.

Cultural History

Mississippi Department of Archives and History
A state agency site, contains information on several cultural resources in the state of Mississippi.

General Information

Archaeology at About.com

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