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Testing for a functional relationship between shell rings and flood-prone environments in the Yazoo Basin of the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley

<p> The form and function of freshwater mussel shell rings in the Yazoo Basin was examined in this thesis. General and controlled surface collections, excavations, a seriation, and documentary research on flooding in the Yazoo Basin were completed. Four sites were investigated, including 22YZ513 (Rugby Farm), 22YZ605 (Light Capp), 22QU562 (Devil&rsquo;s Race Track), and 22QU569 (Drew Smith), in an attempt to address whether shell rings were a functional byproduct of flood-prone environments. Results indicated that the two Quitman County sites were not shell rings, even though they appeared as such from aerial photographs, and that they represent a different ceramic cultural lineage than the two shell ring sites in Yazoo County. The two shell ring sites support hypothesis 1: that a functional relationship existed between shell rings and flood-prone environments during the Middle to Late Woodland periods in the Yazoo Basin. </p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:PROQUEST/oai:pqdtoai.proquest.com:10141575
Date23 September 2016
CreatorsRaymond, Tiffany Renee
PublisherMississippi State University
Source SetsProQuest.com
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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