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Mississippi Archaeology

Mississippi Archaeology is published biannually by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in cooperation with the Mississippi Archaeological Association to present information on field work, artifact analysis, and archaeological theory, and to serve as the journal of record for archaeological activity in Mississippi.

Our most recent issue features:

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  • "A First Look at African American Archaeology at Strawberry Plains," by Terrence Weik


  • "Obsidian Artifacts from Mississippi," by Evan Peacock, Cliff Jenkins, and Grady White


  • "Two Archaic Period Effigy Shark Teeth," by Samuel O. McGahey and David Dockery


  • Book Review: "Cahokia, A World Renewal," by Timothy Schilling

  • Book Review: "Early Pottery: Technology, Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast" by Phillip R. Hodge

  • Book Review: "The Natchez Indians: A History to 1735," by Tiffany D. Hensley

  • Book Review: "Sun Circles and Human Hands," by Rita D. Fields

  • Book Review: "Mississippi Archaeology Q & A," by Joe Saunders

  • Book Review: "Native American Place Names," by Jayur Mehta

  • Book Review: "Two Historic Cemeteries in Crawford County, Arkansas," by Dave Martin


Contributions treating the archaeology of Mississippi or the Southeastern region are solicited for publication. Preparation of manuscripts should follow the style used in recent issues; arrangements for electronic transfer of manuscripts can be made after acceptance of a submission, but submissions should be made to the editorial office in hard copy form.

Editorial Office:
H. Edwin Jackson (ed.jackson@usm.edu)
Editor, Mississippi Archaeology
118 College Drive #5074
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-0001

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