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Physiography and Some Archaeologic Implications in the Kentucky Basin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Douglas Osborne
Douglas Osborne*
Affiliation:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn.
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Results in the synthetic studies of archaeology and phases of Recent physiography and geology are not unfamiliar to investigators in many parts of the world. These are generally concerned, however, with somewhat ideal conditions, cave or arid, for both archaeologic discovery and the revealing of physiographic succession.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , October 1943 , pp. 180 - 189
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1943

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References

1 Personal conversation with Dr. L. C. Glenn, chairman of the Department of Geology, Vanderbilt University. Here I take opportunity to acknowledge my debt to Dr. Glenn. He was most kind and informative during our short interviews. I shall often make reference to information or theory derived from him.

2 Born, Kendall E., “Summary of Mineral Resources of Tennessee,” State of Tennessee Division of Geology, Resources of Tennessee (2nd series) Nashville, 1938, p. 8.

3 Fenneman, Nevin M., Physiography of the Eastern United States. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1938, p. 444.Google Scholar

4 Much of this paleogeographic material has been outlined from Schuchert, Charles, and Dunbar, Carl O., A Textbook of Geology, Part 2, Historical Geology. New York: John Wiley Sons, 1933 Google Scholar.

5 Roberts, Joseph K., and Lee Collins, R., “The Tertiary of West Tennessee,” American Journal of Science, Vol. 12, p. 232. September, 1926.Google Scholar

6 Fenneman, op. cit., p. 444.

7 Ibid., p. 444.

8 Glenn, personal conversation.

9 Jewel, W. B., “Geology and Mineral Resources of Hardin County, Tennessee,” State of Tennessee Division of Geology Bulletin 37. Nashville, 1931, p. 49.

10 Ibid., p. 14, also Rose, in Eckel, Edwin C, “Engineering Geology of the Tennessee River System,” Tennessee Valley Authority Geologic Division, Technical Monograph 47. Knoxville, 1940, p. 74.

11 Rhoades in Eckel, op. cit., pp. 37, 45.

12 Jewel, op.cit., p. 15.

13 Rhoades, op. cit., p. 45.

14 Goode, J. Paul, School Atlas. New York: Rand McNally Co. 1937, pp. 20, 21.Google Scholar

15 Rhoades, in Eckel, op. cit., pp. 46–47.

16 Shelford, cited by Kroeber, Alfred L., Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 38. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1939. Map. 3.Google Scholar

17 Shantz and Zon, cited by Kroeber, op. cit., Map 4.

18 Allen, J. A., “History of the American Bison” United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories for 1875 (Hayden Survey) p. 509.

19 Glenn, personal conversation.