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“Salt Pans” from the Southeast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1940

C. H. Fairbanks*
Affiliation:
Ocmulgee National Monument

Extract

“Salt pans” commonly occur throughout the Mississippi drainage area, especially in Southern Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee where they often are associated with salt springs. Most frequently referable to numerous foci of the Middle Phase, Mississippi Pattern they are typical especially of the Gordon-Fewkes Aspect. Recent work under the sponsorship of various governmental agencies (Work Projects Administration, Tennessee Valley Authority, National Park Service) has somewhat extended the known range of this ware to include almost all of the region west of the Appalachians and East of Central Arkansas.

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1940

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