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Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947: A Landmark Study in American Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert C. Dunnell
Robert C. Dunnell*
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Department of Anthropology DH-05, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
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One of the hallmarks of the new archaeology was a shift from “sites” to regions as the investigatory universe appropriate to most archaeological problems (e.g., Binford 1964). This new emphasis was accompanied by a call for multidisciplinary investigations. The precedents usually cited are studies such as MacNeish's Tehuacan Valley project (Byers 1967-1972) and Braidwood's Jarmo project (Braidwood and Howe 1960). Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, 1940-1947 (Phillips, Ford, and Griffin 1951), which shares many of these features, is not commonly cited and is one of the more undervalued classics of its time.

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American Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 1985 , pp. 297 - 300
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1985

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