Issaquena: An Archaeological Phase in the Yazoo Basin of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Robert E. Greengo. Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology, No. 18. 1964. 130 pp., 84 tables, 44 figs. $3.00.

1966 ◽  
Vol 31 (3Part1) ◽  
pp. 446-448
Author(s):  
William H. Sears
Keyword(s):  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
Yazoo Basin

5 Summary Definition of the Issaquena Phase

1964 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 108-111
Author(s):  
Robert E. Greengo
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
The South ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley ◽  
Yazoo Basin ◽  
Definition Of

The Issaquena phase is postulated as a discrete culture unit identified at four sites in the southern part of the Yazoo Basin in the Lower Mississippi Valley. The primary criteria distinguishing this culture unit are a number of pottery types within a Lower Mississippi Valley ceramic tradition. The four marker types are: Manny Stamped, characterized by medium-sized open bowls with thickened rims, and decorated by zoned, dentate rocker-stamping outlined by deep U-shaped incisions on the exterior; Yokena Incised, with similar forms, but decorated by bold designs without background roughening; Troyville Stamped, again with the basic open bowls, but decorated with zoned non-dentate rocker-stamping; and Churupa Punctated, a type closely related to the other three but decorated by zones of hemiconical punctations outlined by the above-described type of incised line. These ceramic groups have prototypes in the preceding Marksville phase, apparently centered somewhat to the south in the Lower Mississippi Valley. It may be noted here that all of the pottery of the Issaquena phase has come from occupation deposits and thus may be construed as utility ware.

Application of the Wheat-Gifford-Wasley Taxonomy to Eastern Ceramics

1958 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Phillips
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Recent Issue ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley ◽  
American Archaeology ◽  
North American Archaeology

In a recent issue of this Journal a trio of Southwestern archaeologists proposed a new scheme of ceramic taxonomy that might, if widely followed, restore the possibility of intercommunication between specialists in North American archaeology (Wheat, Gifford, and Wasley 1958). I became interested in this scheme some time before its publication as a possible solution to certain typological difficulties in the Lower Mississippi Valley. One of the authors, James Gifford, encouraged my efforts to apply it to pottery so different from that for which it was devised, and, as an unforeseen result of numerous consultations with him, and with Stephen Williams, Gordon R. Willey, and Watson Smith, the present paper emerged.

Issaquena: An Archaeological Phase in the Yazoo Basin of the Lower Mississippi Valley.

Man ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Ruth Gruhn ◽  
Robert E. Greengo
Keyword(s):  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley ◽  
Yazoo Basin

Presumed Trade and Aberrant Pottery

1949 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 130-145
Author(s):  
Alex D. Krieger
Keyword(s):  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley ◽  
Great Range ◽  
Source Areas ◽  
Site Occupation ◽  
Foreign Origin ◽  
Pronounced Deviation

The pottery in the following sections is not considered to belong to the Alto Focus complex, but to occur with it at different points in the Davis site occupation by trade or other means. If the writer appears to vacillate over what is and what is not trade pottery here, it is due in part to the problem of separating what could have been produced at the site (as extreme variations of resident styles) from what probably was not (because of some distinctive attribute which would mark it as foreign). In certain cases of pronounced deviation, a foreign origin is obvious enough, particularly when the source areas are well known. But where the whole tradition is similar as in the clay-tempered pottery of the lower Mississippi Valley region, and a great range of decorative techniques was employed for long periods of time, the problem is not easy.

Loess stratigraphy of the Lower Mississippi Valley

1996 ◽  
Vol 45 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 167-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.M. Rutledge ◽  
M.J. Guccione ◽  
H.W. Markewich ◽  
D.A. Wysocki ◽  
L.B. Ward
Keyword(s):  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley

Age, genesis, and paleoclimatic interpretation of the Sangamon/Loveland complex in the Lower Mississippi Valley, U.S.A.

2010 ◽  
Vol 123 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 21-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. W. Markewich ◽  
D. A. Wysocki ◽  
M. J. Pavich ◽  
E. M. Rutledge
Keyword(s):  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Lower Mississippi Valley
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