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RESEARCH NOTES are occasional brief publications of the Frank H. McClung Museum, to inform Museum Associates of current research using the Museum's extensive collections. These reports are generally written in non-technical language.

Following is a complete list of RESEARCH NOTES published to date. Additional information concerning these or other McClung Museum publications, or other McClung Museum research matters, may be obtained by contacting the McClung Museum.

1. Paleopathological Studies of Late Prehistoric Middle Tennesseans
   by Dr. Leslie Eisenberg
   November 1990
   
   
2. Spina Bifida in Prehistoric Tennesseans
   by Dr. Maria O. Smith
   December 1990
   
   
3. Tennessee's First Crops: Research in Paleoethnobotany
   by Dr. Gary Crites
   February 1991
   
   
4. Prehistoric Textiles at the Stone Site, Stewart County, Tennessee
   by Penelope B. Drooker
   March 1991
   
   
5. Tennessee Origins of Rheumatoid Arthritis
   by Bruce M. Rothschild
   April 1991
   
   
6. Mouse Creek Phase Communities
   by Lynne P. Sullivan
   June 1991
   
   
7. An Example of Intentional Late Prehistoric Dental Mutilation from Middle Tennessee
   by William O. Autry
   August 1991
   
   
8. The Watauga Archaeological Survey
   by C. Clifford Boyd, Jr.
   November 1991
   
   
9. The Earliest Scalping Victim in America
   by Dr. Maria O. Smith
   December 1991
   
   
10. First Dinosaur Record from Tennessee
    by Jonathan R. Bryan
    January 1992
    
    
11. Archaeological Evidence of Fire Ceremonialism in the Late Prehistoric Southeast
    by Brett H. Riggs
    September 1992
    
    
12. The Function of Hopewell Blades from the Southeast
    by Larry R. Kimball
    November 1992
    
    
13. A Middle Pennsylvanian (ca. 315 Million Years) Amphibian Trackway from the Cross Mountain Formation, East Tennessee Cumberlands
    by Martin S. Kohl and Jonathan R. Bryan
    April 1993
    
    
14. Ancient Egyptian Ba-Bird
    by Elaine A. Evans
    November 1993
    
    
15. Hopi Basketry in Sacred and Social Domains
    by Betty J. Duggan
    May 1995
    
    
16. Dynasty I Jar Sealings
    by Elaine A. Evans
    June 1995
    
    
17. Icehouse Bottom and the Hopewell Connection
    by James B. Stoltman
    February 1999
    
    
18. Archaeomagnetism Provides Dates for the Toqua Site
    by Dr. Lynne P. Sullivan
    July 2000
    
    
19. Dates for Shell Gorgets and the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex in the Chickamauga Basin of Southeastern Tennessee
    by Dr. Lynne P. Sullivan
    March 2001
    
    
20. Cat Mummies
    by Elaine A. Evans
    May 2001
    
    
21. Ancient Egyptian Coffin Face
    by Elaine A. Evans
    November 2001
    
    
22. People and Plants in the Prehistoric Southeast: New Information from South Carolina
    by Dr. Gary D. Crites
    February 2002
    
    
23. A Foreign Captive at Medinet Habu
    by Elaine A. Evans
    April 2002
    
    
24. A Magical Papyrus Fragment Speaks
    by Elaine A. Evans
    July 2002
    
    
25. A Curious Sealed Pottery Jar
    by Elaine A. Evans
    April 2003
    
    
26. Pots and Pathology : Bio-Archaeological Data Suggests A Shift In Prehistoric Settlement Pattern
    by Maria Ostendorf Smith
    January 2006
    
    
27. Prehistoric American Indians in Tennessee
    by Jefferson Chapman, Ph.D.
    2009