Archaeology & the Native Peoples of Tennessee
Photos of Research, 1934-1942
CEDAR LOG STEPS (1934)
Excavations at the Cox Site in Anderson County, Tennessee, exposed cedar log steps leading to the summit of a Mississippian Period mound.
T.M.N. LEWIS (1934).
Seated in the University of Tennessee Archaeology lab, T.M.N. Lewis is surrounded by material from excavations made at a site in Union County, Tennessee, prior to the inundation of Norris Reservoir.
EXCAVATION OF A LATE MISSISSIPPIAN MOUND (1935)
This site, in Roane County, Tennessee, was later covered by Watts Bar Lake. Much of the archaeology in Tennessee between 1934 and 1942 was part of the federal relief effort of the Depression years.
POST HOLE TRENCHES
Multiple post hole trenches indicate that the walls of this 700-year-old house at the Williams site in Henry County, Tennessee, were rebuilt several times. Excavations were part of the Kentucky Lake Project.
