Archaeological Reports Series

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has published the Archaeological Reports Series since 1970.

MDAH Reissues Winterville Archaeological Report

MDAH has reissued the long out-of-print archaeological report on Winterville Mounds. The report was written by Jeffrey P. Brain as an expanded version of his doctoral dissertation presented at Yale University in 1969.

To purchase a copy of Winterville: Late Prehistoric Culture Contact int he Lower Mississippi Valley, contact the Mississippi History Store at 601-576-6921 or by email. The price is $25 plus tax and shipping. Copies may also be purchased at the Charlotte Capers Building, 100 South State Street, Jackson.

Available titles

Winterville: Late Prehistoric Culture Contact int he Lower Mississippi Valley. Archaeological Report No. 23. By Jeffrey P. Brain, 1989 (reprinted in 2009). Cost $20.00

Fishweirs: A World Perspective with Emphasis on the Fishweirs of Mississippi. Archaeological Report No. 33. By John M. Connaway, 2007. Cost $74.95

The 1996 Excavations at the Batesville Mounds: A Woodland Period Platform Mound Complex in Northwest Mississippi. Archaeological Report No. 32. By Jay Johnson, 2001. Cost $20.00

Mississippi Projectile Point Guide. Archaeological Report No. 31. By Samuel O. McGahey, 2000.

Fisherfolk, Farmers, and Frenchmen: Archaeological Explorations on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Archaeological Report No. 30. By John H. Blitz and C. Baxter Mann, 2000. Cost $20.00

Raw Materials and Exchange in the Mid-South: Proceedings of the 16th Annual Mid-South Archaeological Conference, Jackson, Mississippi—June 3 and 4, 1995. Archaeological Report No. 29. Edited by Evan Peacock and Samuel O. Brookes, 1999. Cost $15.00

Archaeology of the Fatherland Site: The Grand Village of the Natchez. Archaeological Report No. 28. By Robert S. Neitzel, 1997. Cost $20.00

Many Choctaw Standing: An Archaeological Study of Culture Change in the Early Historic Period. Archaeological Report No. 27. By Timothy Paul Mooney, 1997. Cost $8.50

The Mississippi De Soto Trail Mapping Project. Archaeological Report No. 26. By David Morgan, 1997. Cost $12.00

Archaeology of Eastern North America: Papers in Honor of Stephen Williams. Archaeological Report No. 25. Edited by James B. Stoltman, 1993. Cost $20.00

Early Marksville Phases in the Lower Mississippi Valley. A Study of Culture Contact Dynamics. Archaeological Report No. 21. By Edwin Alan Toth, 1988. Cost $15.00

Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in Clay County, Mississippi. Archaeological Report No. 20. By John Thomas Sparks, 1987. Cost $5.00

Archaeological Excavations at the Jackson Landing/Mulatto Bayou Earthwork. Archaeological Report No. 19. By Mark Williams, 1987. Cost $5.00

The Protohistoric Period in the Mid-South: 1500–1700, Proceedings of the 1983 Mid-South Archaeological Conference. Archaeological Report No. 18. Edited by David H. Dye and Ronald C. Brister, 1986. Cost $7.50

The Tchula Period in the Mid-South and Lower Mississippi Valley: Proceedings of the 1982 Mid-South Archaeological Conference. Archaeological Report No. 17. Edited by David H. Dye and Ronald C. Brister, 1986. Cost $5.00

An Archaeological Study of the Mississippi Choctaw Indians. Archaeological Report No. 16. By John H. Blitz, 1985. Cost $5.00

The Wilsford Site (22-Co-516), Coahoma County, Mississippi. A Late Mississippi Period Settlement in the Northern Yazoo Basin of Mississippi. Archaeological Report No. 14. By John M. Connaway, 1984. Cost $7.50

The Confederate Upper Battery Site, Grand Gulf, Mississippi: Excavation 1982. Archaeological Report No. 13. By William C. Wright, 1984. Cost $5.00

The Grand Village of the Natchez Revisited. Archaeological Report No. 12. By Robert Stuart Neitzel, 1983. Cost $15.00

Survey and Excavation along Archusa Creek. Archaeological Report No. 11. By Richard A. Marshall, 1982. Cost $5.00

A Report on Archaeological Test Excavations at Goode Lake, Jackson County, Mississippi. Archaeological Report No. 10. By Richard A. Marshall, 1982. Cost $5.00

The Jaketown Site, Surface Collections from a Poverty Point Regional Center in the Yazoo Basin, Mississippi. Archaeological Report No. 9. By Geoffrey R. Lehmann, 1982. Cost $5.00

The Confederate Magazine at Fort Wade, Grand Gulf, Mississippi: Excavations 1980–1981. Archaeological Report No. 8. By William C. Wright, 1982. Cost $5.00

The Slate Site: A Poverty Point Lapidary Industry in the Southern Yazoo Basin, Mississippi. Archaeological Report No. 7. By James Lauro and Geoffrey R. Lehmann, 1982. Cost $5.00

The Hester Site: An Early Archaic Occupation in Monroe County, Mississippi. Archaeological Report No. 5. By Samuel O. Brookes, 1979. Cost $7.50

Archaeological Survey in Mississippi 1974–1975. Archaeological Report No. 2. By John Penman, 1977. Reprint 1980. Cost $7.50

The Grand Gulf Mound: Salvage Excavation of an Early Marksville Burial Mound in Claiborne County, Mississippi. Archaeological Report No. 1. By Samuel O. Brookes, 1976. Cost $5.00

Other Archaeological Publications

Anthology of Mississippi Archaeology 1966–1979. A Selection from the Publications of the Mississippi Archaeological Association. Edited by Patricia Galloway, 1985. Published in conjunction with the Mississippi Archaeological Association. Cost $15.00

Archaeological Excavation at the Boyd Site: Tunica County, Mississippi. Technical Report No. 1. By John M. Connaway and Samuel O. McGahey, 1971. Cost $5.00