• Learning About the Past
  • Before the 1st Tennesseans
  • Archaeology
  • Tennessee Digs
• Who lived in Tennessee
  • Paleo-Indians
  • Archaic Indians
  • Woodland Indians
  • Mississippian Indians

First Tennesseans Acknowledgments

Baez, John, “Extinction,” University of California website, online at http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/extinction/ 

Bense, Judith A. Archaeology of the Southeastern United States: Paleoindian to World War I. San Diego: Academic Press, 1994.

Chapman, Jefferson, PhD. “PreHistoric indians in Tennessee.” The McClung Museum. University of Tennessee Knoxville. Online at http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/research/renotes/rn-27txt.htm.

Cox, Stephen D., Art and Artisans of Prehistoric Middle Tennessee: The Gates P. Thruston Collection of Vanderbilt University Held in Trust by the Tennessee State Museum. Nashville: Tennessee State Museum, 1985.

Dowd, John T. The Anderson Site: Middle Archaic Adaptation in Tennessee’s Central Basin. Knoxville: U.T. Graphic Arts, 1989.

Fagan, Brian M.  Ancient North America: The Archaeology of a Continent. 3^rd ed. London: Thames & Hudson, Inc., 2000.

Griffin, James B., ed. Archeology of Eastern United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952.

Hollenback, Kandace D. Foraging in the Tennessee River Valley: 12,500 to 8,000 Years Ago. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2009.

Hudson, Charles. The Southeastern Indians. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976.

Lewis, Thomas M. N., and Madeline Kneberg. Tribes That Slumber: Indians of the Tennessee Regions. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1958.

“Mastodon.” Institute of Natural Resources Sustainability. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Online at www.isgs.illinois.edu/education/ice-age-res/mastodon.shtml.

Milner, George. The Moundbuilders: Ancient Peoples of Eastern North America. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.

Morgan, William N. Prehistoric Architecture in the Eastern United States. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1980.

O’Brien, Michael J., and Robert C. Dunnell, eds. Changing Perspective on the Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998.

“Slash & Burn.” The Encyclopedia of Earth. Accessed June 2011. Online at http://www.eoearth.org/article/Slash_and_burn.

Tanksley, Gia, "The Geologic History of Tennessee."  Nashville: Tennessee State Museum, 2007.

Willey, Gordon R. An Introduction to American Archaeology: Volume One, Middle and North America. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966.