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1 online resource (x, 149 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Archaeology, the study of "stuff" -- Why do we do archaeology? -- How do you know where to dig? -- How do you know how old it is? -- You find any gold yet? -- Who were they? -- Do I have a mound on my place? -- What were the artifacts used for, and how were they made? -- What are my artifacts worth? -- Can the government take my stuff away? -- What happens to the artifacts? -- How do you become an archaeologist? -- What can I do to help? -- How can I learn more? |
| Summary |
How old is this arrowhead? Is there really gold in that Indian mound? What tribe left all these artifacts behind? Can the government take my artifact collection away? For more than twenty years, Evan Peacock, an archaeologist at Mississippi State University, has been fielding and answering questions such as these from the public. In Mississippi Archaeology Q & A, he gathers those answers in one place to give landowners, history buffs, arrowhead hunters, and students new to archaeology an invaluable handbook of dos and don'ts. Peacock writes for the lay reader, supplies humorous anecdotes from |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Mississippi -- Antiquities -- Miscellanea
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Archaeology -- Mississippi -- Miscellanea
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Mississippi -- Miscellanea
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Historic sites -- Mississippi -- Miscellanea
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
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Antiquities
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Archaeology
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Historic sites
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Indians of North America -- Antiquities
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Mississippi -- Antiquities -- Miscellanea
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Mississippi
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| Genre/Form |
miscellanies.
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Trivia and miscellanea
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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Miscellanées.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781604736434 |
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1604736437 |
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1282940848 |
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9781282940840 |
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9786612940842 |
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6612940840 |
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