Multi-staged Research at the Denmark Site, A Small Early-Middle Mississippian Town

Identifier

828

Author

Scott Paul Hadley Jr.

Date

2013

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Major

Earth Sciences

Concentration

Archaeology

Committee Chair

Andrew Mickelson

Committee Member

Robert Connolly

Committee Member

David Dye

Abstract

Early-Middle Mississippian settlements in the hinterlands of West Tennessee have largely gone unstudied. The void in settlement data leaves a gap in understanding Early-Middle Mississippian settlements within the Mid-South region. A multi-staged research design at the Denmark Site (40MD85) in Madison County, Tennessee was employed to determine a settlement system at Denmark. Denmark was originally thought to be a Vacant Mound Center that did not support an associated habitation, but topographic mapping, LiDAR data, magnetometry survey, and targeted excavation reveal that the Denmark mound group represents a sizeable settlement.

Comments

Data is provided by the student.

Library Comment

Dissertation or thesis originally submitted to the local University of Memphis Electronic Theses & dissertation (ETD) Repository.

Recommended Citation

Hadley, Scott Paul Jr., "Multi-staged Research at the Denmark Site, A Small Early-Middle Mississippian Town" (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 691.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/etd/691