Archaeology of Mississippi. (book reviews)

Archaeologists like old things, especially old books. Brown's Archaeology of Mississippi is one of the old books that archaeologists like to have. Published in 1926 and recently republished by University Press of Mississippi this impressive volume is one of the classics from early American archaeology.

The period from the 1840s until the 1920s was one when American archaeology was still fascinated with objects and mounds. The work of such early pioneers as Squire and Davis, Moore, Jones, Thomas, Moorehead, and the like, has given us an interesting glimpse at aspects of aboriginal ...

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