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New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee : Intellectual, Methodological, and Theoretical Contributions /

"New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee tells the engrossing story of Southeastern archaeology in the 1930s. The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of May 1933 initiated an ambitious program of flood control and power generation by way of a chain of hydroelectric dams on the Tennessee River. The constru...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Dye, David H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa : University Alabama Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; An Overview of Federal Work Relief Projects in Tennessee and the Tennessee Valley, 1933-1942: An Introduction
  • David H. Dye; I. Archaeologists and the New Deal; 1. W.C. McKern as Adviser, Consultant, and Godfather for New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee
  • Marlin F. Hawley and David H. Dye; 2. New Deal Archaeology and the Chicago Method
  • Jessica R. Howe; 3. William S. Webb and the Paradoxical Leadership of TVA Archaeology
  • Douglas W. Schwartz; II. Archaeology and the New Deal in Tennessee.
  • 4. Reinterpreting the Shell Mound Archaic in Western Tennessee: A GIS-Based Approach to Radiocarbon Sampling of New Deal-Era Site Collections
  • Thaddeus G. Bissett5. Depression-Era Archaeology in the Watts Bar Reservoir, East Tennessee
  • Shannon Koerner and Jessica Dalton-Carriger; 6. WPA Excavations at the Mound Bottom and Pack Sites in Middle Tennessee, 1936-1940
  • Michael C. Moore, David H. Dye, and Kevin E. Smith; 7. Reconfiguring the Chickamauga Basin
  • Lynne P. Sullivan.
  • 8. Bioarchaeological Analysis of the WPA Mound Bottom Skeletal Sample
  • Heather Worne, Giovanna M. Vidoli, and Dawnie Wolfe SteadmanIII. The Legacy of the New Deal; 9. The Tennessee Archaeological Society from 1944 to 1985: Legacy and Consequences of the New Deal in Tennessee
  • Kevin E. Smith; 10. Tennessee's New Deal Archaeology on the National Stage
  • Bernard K. Means; 11. Comments on New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee, Then and Now
  • Gerald F. Schroedl; Contributors; Index.