Archaeological Publications
Since 1984 the Heritage Council has published selected papers presented at its yearly state-wide archaeological conference. These papers cover a broad range of topics relating to Kentucky archaeology. Occassionally the Council also publishes site specific monographs. If you have any questions concerning any ot the Heritage Council's publichations please contact Yvonne Sherrick.
Paleoindian and Archaic Research in Kentucky
Edited by Charles Hockensmith, David Pollack, and Thomas Sanders
This publication includes eleven papers presented at the Third Annual
Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeological Conference, held in 1986 at Louisville.
The conference provided a forum for current research dealing with the Paleoindian
and Archaic Periods in the state. A wide variety of topics are covered, including
chronology, lithic analyses, settlement patterns, ritual behavior, subsistence,
and other issues. Among the highlights of this publication is a statewide
overview of the Archaic Period by Richard W. Jefferies, which provides a
well-needed context for studies dealing with this period of Kentucky's past.
282 pp.; 90 figures; soft cover. $11.00.
New Deal Era Archaeology and Current Research in Kentucky
Edited by David Pollack and Mary Lucas Powell
The Fifth Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeological Conference was
held in Lexington, Kentucky on March 4-6, 1988. The conference, co-sponsored
with the University of Kentucky Museum of Anthropology, featured 19 papers,
11 of which are included in this volume. The focus of the conference was
New Deal Era Archaeology in Kentucky, and the first seven articles in this
volume deal with historical aspects of this era, and re-analyses of materials
from New Deal excavations. The final four papers of this volume deal with
current research projects unrelated to the New Deal Era, but of timely interest
to archaeologists working in Kentucky and the eastern United States.
190 pp.; 60 figures; soft cover. $11.00.
Chambers (15ML109): An Upland Mississippian Village in Western Kentucky
By David Pollack and Jimmy A. Railey
This report presents the results of investigations within portions of a
6 ha Mississippian village site in Marshall County, Kentucky. The ceramic
assemblage and 16 radiocarbon dates indicate that the site was occupied ca.
A.D. 1250-1350. The results of this study have helped refine Mississippian
chronology in the Lower Tennessee-Cumberland region, and the report includes
revealing information on Mississippian subsistence patterns, intrasite activities,
midden soils chemistry, and environmental variability among Mississippian
settlements.
109 pp.; 29 figures; soft cover. $7.00
Studies in Kentucky Archaeology
Edited by Charles D. Hockensmith
The Sixth Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeological Conference was
held in Highland Heights on February 25-26, 1989 and was co-sponsored by
Northern Kentucky University. Papers published in this volume range from
the Archaic period to the historic period and include the following:
Prehistoric Upland Farming Along the Cumberland Plateau; The Green
River Archaeological Study; Guthrie Beach Archaeology: Archaic and
Woodland Settlement Variability on Floodplain and Upland in Jefferson County,
Kentucky; Kentucky Adena Mounds in Retrospect: New Insights from Old
Collections; The Conley-Greene Rockshelter (15EL4): An Early Woodland
Occupation in the Cumberland Plateau of Northeastern in Kentucky ;
Early Pottery in the Lower Tennessee-Cumberland Region: An Examination
of the Ceramics from the Lawrence Site, Trigg County, Kentucky; On the Analytical
Utility of Disturbed Deposits: Moundfill and Backfill at Wickliffe Mounds
; The Evans Rockshelter: An Early Mississippian Camp in Butler County,
Kentucky; The Accounts and Recordings of Aboriginal Petroglyphs and
Pictographs Occurring Within the Boundaries of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
; Current Field Strategies and Hypothesis Testing: The Fort
Jefferson Project Continues; Current Field Strategies and Hypothesis Testing
: The Fort Jefferson Project Continues; Stingy Ridge: A Study
of Twentieth Century Rural Kentucky Farm Organization; The Onionville Mine
Complex.
243 pp.; soft cover. $11.00.
The Human Landscape in Kentucky's Past: Site Structure and Settlement Patterns
Edited by Charles Stout and Christine K. Hensley
On February 24-25, 1990, the Seventh Annual Kentucky Heritage Council
Archaeological Conference was held in Louisville, Kentucky and was co-sponsored
by the University of Louisville. The conference papers are published in this
volume and include discussions on site structure and settlement pattern studies
from the Historic, Mississippian, Woodland, Adena, and Archaic periods. The
role of paleoenvironmental research in settlement pattern studies is also
discussed.
138 pp.; soft cover. $11.00
The Archaeology of Kentucky: Past Accomplishments and Future Directions
Edited by David Pollack
With this publication, the Council presents the basis for the archaeological
component of our state historic preservation plan. This report is organized
in three parts: Prehistoric Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, and Management
of Archaeological Resources. Part One (Chapters 2-7) begins with a chapter
that characterizes the level of previous prehistoric archaeological research
in Kentucky. Subsequent chapters summarize what is known about the Paleoindian,
Archaic, Woodland, Mississippi, and Fort Ancient periods. Part Two (Chapters
8-9) presents an overview of historical archaeological research in Kentucky.
Chapter 8 presents a review of previous historical archaeological research
conducted in the state, while Chapter 9 outlines the state's culture history.
The final section, Part Three (Chapter 10-12), deals with the management
of archaeological resources. Chapter 10 includes a summary of the Section
106 consultation process as well as a discussion of National Register of
Historic Places eligibility requirements and presents guidelines for preparing
documentation/data recovery plans. Chapter 11 outlines stronger protection
and preservation measures, while Chapter 12 discusses a variety of educational
options available to archaeologists. 2 volumes:
788 pp.; 59 figures; soft cover. $30.00
Current Archaeological Research in Kentucky: Volume Two
Edited by David Pollack and A. Gwynn Henderson
The Eighth Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeological Conference was
held in Bowling Green on March 2-3, 1991 and was co-sponsored by Western
Kentucky University. Papers published in this volume report on research
conducted on subjects relating to Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian, Fort
Ancient, and Historic site archaeology and include Shell Mounds as Burial
Mounds: A Revision of the Shell Mound Archaic by Cheryl Claassen;
The Grayson Site: Late Archaic and Late Woodland Occupations in the Little
Sandy Drainage by R. Jerald Ledbetter and Lisa D. O'Steen; Archaeological
Investigation of the Kay Shelter in Breathitt County, Kentucky by Kurt
H. Fiegel, Betty J. McGraw, and James L. Hixon; Falls Plain: A Middle
Woodland Ceramic Type from the Falls of the Ohio River Region by Stephen
T. Mocas; The Rogers Site Complex in Boone County, Kentucky by Jeannine
Kreinbrink; The Yankeetown Occupation at the Foster Site in Daviess County,
Kentucky by Tom Sussenbach; Chronological and Spatial Perspectives
on Ceramic Vessel form at Wickliffe Mounds (15BA4) by Kit W. Wesler;
Is the Stone Site Protohistoric? by Kenneth C. Carstens; Carpenter
Farm: A Middle Fort Ancient Community in Franklin County, Kentucky by
David Pollack and Charles D. Hockensmith; The Florence Site Complex: Two
Fourteenth Century Fort Ancient Communities in Harrison County, Kentucky
by William E. Sharp and David Pollack; Capitol View: A Early Madisonville
Horizon Settlement in Franklin County, Kentucky by A. Gwynn Henderson;
and Archaeological Contexts and Associations: The Lextran Archaeobotanical
Collection by Jack Rossen.
276 pp; soft cover $15.00
Current Archaeological Research in Kentucky: Volume Three
Edited by edited John F. Doershuk, Christopher A. Bergman, and David Pollack
The Eleventh Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeological Conference
was held in Heighland Heights on February 25-27, 1994 and was co-sponsored
by Northern Kentucky University. Papers published in this volume report on
research conducted on subjects relating to Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland,
Mississippian, and Historic site archaeology and include Early Paleoindians
and Eastern U.S. Rockshelters: Findings and Implications of Test Excavations
at Wolfe Shelter (15Cu21), by Leon Lane, Dennis Stanford, Tom Dillehay,
C. Vance Haynes, Carl Shields, and Michael French; Analysis of the Human
Skeletal Remains from the Railway Museum Site (15Jf630), by Nancy A.
Ross-Stallings; Botanical Contents of Paleofeces from Two Eastern Kentucky
Rockshelters, by Kristen J. Gremillion; Kramer Points and Fayette
Thick Ceramics at the West Runway Site (15Be391), Boone County,Kentucky
by Ken Duerksen, John F. Doershuk, Christopher A. Bergman and Terry W.
Tune; Kramer Projectile Points and Early Woodland Activity at the West
Runway Site (15Be391), Boone County, Kentucky by Scott Wall, Keith A.
Russell, Gary Perkins, Donald A. Miller, Larry R. Kimball, Mark Jacobs, Ken
Duerksen, John F. Doershuk, Richard Adams and Christopher A. Bergman;
The Sara Site (15Jf187): an Early Late Woodland Site in the Falls of the
Ohio River Region by Stephen T. Mocas; Excavation of a Prehistoric
Feature at Big Bone Lick, Boone County, Kentucky by Donald A. Miller
and Ken Duerksen; Mississippian Secondary Centers along the Lower Ohio
River Valley: an Overview of Some Sociopolitical Implications, by Paul
P. Kreisa; Mound C and the Mississippian Decline: a View of Culture Preserved
in Wickliffe's Mortality Data by Hugh B. Matternes; An Analysis of
Mississippian Faunal Exploitation Patterns at Wickliffe Mounds Paul P.
Kreisa and Jacqueline M. McDowell; Preliminary Assessment of Mississippian
Settlement at the Croley-Evans Site (15Kx24) Knox County, Kentucky by
Richard W. Jefferies; Otto Sharp Site: A Protohistoric Site in the Reelfoot
Basin, Lake County, Tennessee by William L. Lawrence and Robert C. Mainfort,
Jr.; and Archaeology at Locust Grove Plantation, Jefferson County, Kentucky
by Amy L. Young.
ca. 315 pp; soft cover $15.00
Historic Archaeology in Kentucky
Edited by Kim A. McBride, W. Stephen McBride, and David Pollack
This volume is a collection of papers on historic sites and topics presented
at recent Kentucky Heritage Council Annual Archaeological Conferences. It
is the first Kentucky Heritage Council volume of collected papers devoted
primarily to historical archaeology in Kentucky. Papers published in this
volume include: A History of Southern Clay Manufacturing Company at Robbins,
Tennessee by Tom Des Jean; Pine Tar Manufacture in Eastern Kentucky:
A Forgotten Forest Industry by Cecil R. Ison and Charles D. Hockensmith;
Kentucky's Saltpeter Caves: A Case Study and Literature Review by
M. Susan Duncan; Saltpeter Manufacturing and Marketing and its Relation
to the Gunpowder Industry in Kentucky During the Nineteenth Century by
Gary A. O'Dell; A Lithographic Stone Quarry in Meade County, Kentucky
by Charles D. Hockensmith and Fred E. Coy, Jr.; Onionville Glass and
Ceramic Patterns by Pamela A. Schenian; The Role of Women in Kentucky's
Western Colonial Frontier by Kenneth C. Carstens; Living the Good
Life: Archaeological Explorations of Middle Class Life in Nineteenth Century
Prestonsburg, Floyd County, Kentucky by Nancy O, Malley; Appalachian
Kentucky Home Life, 1880-1940: Historic Context for Material Culture Studies
by Karen E. Hudson; The James L. and Martha Brown Site (15He683): Indicators
of Ethnicity and Power at a Late Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century African-American
Farmstead in Henderson County, Kentucky by Mark J. Wagner; Ceramic
and Slave Lifeway at Locus Grove Plantation by Amy Lambeck Young, Susan
C. Andrews, and Philip J. Carr; Archaeology at the Ashland Privy, Lexington,
Kentucky by W. Stephen McBride and Mark E. Esarey; "Not All Are the
Same": Pattern Recognition at Ohio Valley Urban Privies by Robert A.
Genheimer; Toward a Greater Understanding of Privy Vault Architecture
by M. Jay Stottman; Archaeology and the Sisters of Charity (1830-50):
Investigations Within the Undercroft of the Cathedral of the Assumption,
Louisville, Kentucky by Floyd Mansberger; Filled to Capacity and Beyond:
Summary of Archaeological Investigations in Two Urban Cemeteries in Louisville,
Kentucky by Philip J. DiBlasi; A Summary of the 1991-1995 Archaeological
and Archival Investigations at the South Union Shaker Village in Logan County,
Kentucky by Kurt H. Fiegel; Archaeology at the Shaker Village at
Pleasant Hill: Rediscovering the Importance of Order by Kim A. McBride;
and Rethinking Significance: An Archaeological Approach to Architectural
and Historical Significance by L. Martin Perry.
ca. 432 pages; soft cover $25.00
Current Archaeological Research in Kentucky: Volume Four
Edited by Sara L. Sanders, Thomas N. Sanders, and Charles Stout
This volume contains 16 papers originally presented at the Ninth (Murray
State University, 1992) and Tenth (University of Kentucky, 1993) Kentucky
Heritage Council archaeological conferences. The volume includes The Homesick
Heart, a poem by Ralph D. Brown, New Deal Field Supervisor; Prehistoric
Plant Use in the Eastern Mountains: A View From Cornett Woods Rockshelter,
Letcher County, Kentucky, by Charles Miday; Late Woodland Utilization
of the Rock Bridge Shelter in Wolfe County, Kentucky , by Kristen J.
Gremillion; Lithic Analysis at the Rock Bridge Shelter (15Wo75) Wolfe
County, Eastern Kentucky, by Darlene Applegate; Archaic Shell Mound
Paleodemography: A Case Study From the Read Site (15Bt10) , by Nicholas
P. Herrmann; Early Woodland Site Variation Within the Constricted Ohio
River Valley Bottomlands, by Ann Bader; Mississippian Settlement in
Southeastern Kentucky: A Preliminary Assessment, by Richard Jefferies;
Archaeological Survey and Testing of Upper Cumberland Mississippian Sites
in Knox and Whitley Counties, Kentucky, by Richard W. Jefferies and Jennifer
Flood; New Field: An Early Madisonville Horizon Site in Bourbon County,
Kentucky, by A. Gwynn Henderson and David Pollack; Controlled Surface
Collection and Salvage Data Recovered From the Twin Mounds Site (15Ba2)
, by Jarrod Burks and Charles Stout; Archaeological Investigations at
the Canton Site (15Tr1), Trigg County, Kentucky, by Charles Stout, Gregory
R. Walz, and Jarrod Burks; A New Look at the Mississippian Landscape at
Wickliffe Mounds, by Kit W. Wesler; Late Prehistoric Mortuary Behavior
in the Jackson Purchase: Evidence From Mound C, Wickliffe Mound Group (15Ba4)
, by Hugh B. Matternes; Strings of Seeds--Fashion or Function? Possible
Medical Properties of Ariseama spp. Seeds Found with Fawn Hoof, by Gina
S. Powell; A Preliminary Report on the Mud Glyphs in 15Wa6, Warren County,
Kentucky, by Daniel B. Davis; Searching for Fort Jefferson's Civilian
Community With a Metal Detector, by Kenneth C. Carstens and William
P. Dowdy; and Lithic Scatters: A Case Study in Research Design, by
John T. Carter.
397 pages; soft cover $20.00
Current Archaeological Research in Kentucky: Volume Five
Edited by Charles D. Hockensmith, Kenneth Carstens, Charles Stout, and Sara J. Rivers
The Twelfth Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeological Conference was held in Richmond, Kentucky during the spring of 1995, and was co-sponsored by Eastern Kentucky University. This volume contains 12 papers originally presented at the Twelfth Conference plus two additional volunteered papers. The volume includes 3,000 Years of Human Activity at the Cold Oak Shelter , by Kristen J. Gremillion; The Research Potential of Surface-Collected Lithic Assemblages; The Rhondle Lee Collection, Powell County, Kentucky , by Darlene Applegate; Not Quite Newt Kash: Three Small Rockshelters in Laurel County, by Kelli Carmean and William E. Sharp; Degenerative Joint Disease of the Chiggerville Site (15Oh1) as an Indicator of Biomechanical Stress, by Eric Bushee; Mothers' Work Loads and the Origin of Sex Roles in the Midwest-Midsouth Regions, by Cheryl Classen; Middle Woodland Occupation at the Martin Justice Site (15Pi92), Pike County, Kentucky , by Jonathan P. Kerr and Steven D. Creasman; The Shelby Lake Site: A Late Woodland Upland Camp in Shelby County, Kentucky, by Charles D. Hockensmith, David Pollack, Valerie A. Haskins, and Jack Rossen; Caborn-Welborn Ceramics: Intersite Comparisons and Extraregional Interaction, by David Pollack and Cheryl Ann Munson; Reconstructing the 1932-1939 King Excavations at Wickliffe Mounds, by Kit W. Wesler; Death and Disease in the Lower Cumberland River Valley: Bioarchaeological Evidence from the Late Prehistoric Tinsley Hill Site, by Leon Lane; Assessing the Maize Consumption of Fort Ancient and Middle Mississippian Populations of the Ohio Valley: New Stable Isotope Evidence, by Mark R. Schurr; An Analysis of Medicines Used on the Late Eighteenth Century Frontier in Kentucky and Illinois , by James A. Lucy and Kenneth C. Carstens; Archaeological Investigations at the 1795 Eliajh Foley House, Fayette County, Kentucky, by M. Jay Stottman and Charles D. Hockensmith; Archaeological Investigations Incorporating Digital Terrain Models, by Andrew C. Kellie, Kenneth C. Carstens, and Daryl Orth; Archaeological Investigations at Fort Smith, 15Lv207, a Federal Civil War Gun Emplacement Site in Smithland, Kentucky, by Kenneth C. Carstens; and In the Days of the "Grand Water Power": Development and Decline of the Grist Mill Industry in Northern Kentucky, by Jeannine Kreinbrink. 352 pages; soft cover $20.00
Current Archaeological Research in Kentucky: Volume Six
Edited by David Pollack and Kristen Gremillion
This volume contains papers presented at the Fourteenth and Sixteenth Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeological Conferences. The Fourteenth Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeological Conference was held at Natural Bridge State Park in Slade, Kentucky in 1997 and was cosponsored by the Daniel Boone National Forest. The Sixteenth Annual Kentucky Heritage Council Archaeological Conference was held in Lexington in 1999 and was cosponsored by the University of Kentucky. Papers published in this volume report on research conducted on subjects relating to Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian, Fort Ancient, and Historic site archaeology and include Archaic Plant Utilization at the Hedden Site, McCracken County, Kentucky by Jack Rossen; The Archaeological Potential Of Small Sites by Steven D. Creasman, Andrew P. Bradbury, and Jonathan P. Kerr; The Research Potential of Textile Artifacts: An Example from Carter County, Kentucky by Kristen J. Gremillion, Kathryn Jakes, and Virginia Wimberley; Archaeological Investigations at the Gays Creek Shelter (15Pe186), Perry County, Kentucky by Andrew P. Bradbury; Rockshelters at the Headwaters: An Archaeological Survey in the Big Sinking Drainage of Eastern Kentucky by Kristen J. Gremillion, Katherine R. Mickelson, Andrew M. Mickelson, and Anne B. Lee; Chert Resource Availability, Procurement, and Use in the Upper Rolling Fork River Valley, Marion County, Kentucky by Jack H. Ray; The Watkins Site (15Lo12) Revisited: Previous Research, New Interpretations, And Recent Artifact Analysis by Darlene Applegate; Site Structure, Activities And Refuse: A Study of Two Features Excavated at the Dry Branch Creek Site (15Me62), A Fort Ancient Site in the Upper Salt River Valley, Mercer County, Kentucky by Melody Pope; Mortuary Variation and Space: A Glimpse of Meaning in Wickliffe's Mound C Cemetery by Hugh B. Matternes; Cottage Life: Archaeological And Historical Investigations at a NineteenthCentury Iron Making Community at the Cottage Furnace, Estill County, Kentucky by William D. Updike; Gun Smoke by the River: and Firearm-Related Artifacts from the Argosy Casino Project, Dearborn County, Indiana by Donald B. Ball. ca. 245 pp; soft cover $15.00