Cat Monsters and Head Pots: The Archaeology of Missouri's Pemiscot Bayou

About this title: Destined to become a classic in North American archaeology, Cat Monsters and Head Pots is a groundbreaking account of the late-period archaeology of one small but archaeologically important region of the central Mississippi River valley - an area bordering Pemiscot Bayou in modern Pemiscot County, Missouri. The sites from this period - the late Mississippian period, A.D. 1300-1540 - have been a lure for decades, primarily because of the exquisite pottery and Spanish artifacts that they produce. During the 1950s and early 1960s, the University of Missouri mostly through the efforts of the late ... read more

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