Contents

Foreword

Jeffrey P. Brain

Chapter 1. Introductory Remarks

Evan Peacock and Patricia Galloway

PART I: PUBLIC ARCHAEOLOGY AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Chapter 2. Archaeology on the National Forests of North Mississippi: A Brief Retrospective

Evan Peacock

Chapter 3. Pimento Cheese and Bacon? Revisiting Mounds in the Lower Mississippi Delta

Cliff Jenkins

PART II: THE ARCHAIC PERIOD

Chapter 4. Early Holocene Climate in the Eastern United States: A View from Mississippi

Samuel O. Brookes and Melissa H. Twaroski

Chapter 5. Sam Brookes and Prehistoric Effigy Beads of the Southeast

Jessica Crawford

Chapter 6. Archaic Chert Beads and Craft Specialization: Application of an Organization of Technology Model

Alison M. Hadley and Philip J. Carr

Chapter 7. From Missouri to Mississippi to Florida: Some Research on the Distribution of Poverty Point Objects

Christopher T. Hays, James B. Stoltman, and Richard A. Weinstein

PART III: THE WOODLAND AND MISSISSIPPIAN PERIODS

Chapter 8. Artifact Assemblages from Two Early Woodland Tchula-Period Sites on the Holly Springs National Forest, North Mississippi

Evan Peacock

Chapter 9. The Slate Springs Mound, a Woodland-Period Platform Mound in the North Central Hills of Mississippi

Keith A. Baca

Chapter 10. Mississippian-Period Occupations in the Ackerman Unit of the Tombigbee National Forest

Andrew M. Triplett

Chapter 11. Owl Creek, Thelma, and Bessemer Mounds: Large Peripheral Mississippian Mound Groups and Bet-Hedging

Janet Rafferty

Chapter 12. Plaquemine Culture Pottery from the Great Ravine at the Anna Site (22AD500), Adams County, Mississippi

Ian W. Brown

PART IV: THE CONTACT AND HISTORIC PERIODS

Chapter 13. Excavations at the South Thomas Street Site (22LE1002): An Early Eighteenth-Century Hamlet Located on the Periphery of the Major Chickasaw Settlement in Northeastern Mississippi

Jay K. Johnson and Edward R. Henry

Chapter 14. The Symbiotic Relationship between the National Forests of Mississippi and the Civilian Conservation Corps: The Early History of the Chickasawhay Ranger District

Maria Schleidt

Chapter 15. Logging Out the Delta: From Mosquitoville to the Sardis & Delta Railroad

Mary Evelyn Starr

PART V: REFLECTIONS

Chapter 16. Brookes@Forest: Building an Epistemic Community for Archaeological Research-in-Action

Patricia Galloway

Appendix. Citation for USDA Forest Service National Heritage Award

Bibliography

Contributors

Index