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Tribute to James B. Griffin (1905-1997)
Introduction
David S. Brose
pp. 125-126
As I Remember Jimmy: On the Value of Museums and Collections
Stephen Williams
pp. 126-129
Tributes
David Anderson, Jeffrey P. Brain, David P. Braun, R. Berle Clay, Penelope
Drooker, Charles H. Faulkner, Richard I. Ford, Gayle J. Fritz, Lynne
Goldstein, N'omi Greber, William G. Haag, George A. Horton, Jesse D.
Jennings, James H. Kellar, John E. Kelly, James J. Krakker, Joyce Marcus,
Carol I. Mason, Ronald J. Mason, Moreau Maxwell, Dan Morse, Jeffrey R.
Parsons, Olaf H. Prufer, George I. Quimby, Mark F. Seeman, Michael J.
Shott, Bruce D. Smith, Dean R. Snow, Stuart Struever, Kent D. Vickery,
Patty Jo Watson, and James V. Wright
pp. 129-157
Paleoindian and Early Archaic Occupations at the CB-North Site, Madison
County, Illinois
J. Bryant Evans, Madeleine G. Evans, and Edwin R. Hajic
pp. 159-196
The CB-North site, located in the American Bottom of the Mississippi
River valley, contained three buried concentrations of cultural remains,
including pit features, rock clusters, and some floral remains. Each
of these concentrations is interpreted as the remains of one or a very
few occupations. Two contained Barnes-like fluted points and preforms,
indicative of the Paleoindian period. The third concentration contained
the distal portion of a beveled projectile point, indicative of an Early
Archaic occupation. Paleoindian material indicates short-term occupation
and a focus on local, primary chert outcrops, whereas Early Archaic groups
may have utilized the site repeatedly and relied on a more diverse set
of cherts.
Activity and Formation as Sources of Variation in Great Lakes Paleoindian
Assemblages
Michael J. Shott
pp. 197-236
What is the nature of variation in Paleoindian assemblage composition?
The question is not as banal as it sounds. Conventional models see variation
in essentialist terms that correspond directly to "types" of
settlements. Great Lakes data suggest that some variation is categorical
and that some is determined by assemblage size, a factor independent
of the norm and activity postulated in conventional views.
Woodland Ceramic Affiliations and Settlement Pattern Change in the North
Central Hills of Mississippi
Evan Peacock
pp. 237-261
Recent surveys on the national forests of northern Mississippi have generated
data useful for understanding Woodland ceramic distributions in the North
Central Hills physiographic province. The earliest ceramics from the
Holly Springs National Forest in extreme northern Mississippi appear
to date to the Early Woodland Tchula period and show stylistic links
with the Yazoo Basin. Ceramics from the more southerly Ackerman Unit
of the Tombigbee National Forest fit into the Middle Woodland Miller
II and III phases as defined for the Tombigbee River valley. Thus, two
distinct ceramic traditions are present within the province. In the Holly
Springs National Forest, post-Tchula components occur on stream terraces
rather than on ridgetops where most Tchula sites have been recorded,
while in the Ackerman Unit prehistoric settlement peaked during the Middle
and Late Woodland periods, after which populations in the area seem to
have declined dramatically. Modification of the Miller boundary proposed
by Johnson (1988) places the western edge of that ceramic tradition within
the North Central Hills.
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