Theses and Dissertations

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Rafferty, Janet E.

Committee Member

Peacock, Evan

Committee Member

Miller, Darcy Shane

Date of Degree

12-11-2015

Document Type

Graduate Thesis - Open Access

Major

Applied Anthropology

Degree Name

Master of Science

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures

Abstract

Kinlock is a freshwater mussel shell ring site located in Sunflower County in the Mississippi Delta. Little work has been done at freshwater mussel shell rings, and therefore little is known about them. This thesis uses four different data collection methods to answer questions of chronology, site layout, etc. These four methods are controlled surface collection, excavation, coring, and magnetometry. Based on the results of these methods, Kinlock was found to be a Woodland period mussel shell ring with a later Mississippian period component built on top of the shell. This later component consisted of five mounds situated around a plaza. It was also found that the plaza was planned and maintained from the Woodland period through the Mississippian period, until the site was abandoned.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/18996

Comments

Sunflower River||Darwinian archaeology||evolutionary archaeology||soil coring||excavation||magnetometry||controlled surface collection||prehistoric||Woodland Period||Mississippian Period||plaza||mound||Kinlock||Sunflower County||Yazoo Basin||Mississippi Delta||settlement pattern||mussel shell||shell ring||archaeology

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