The Prehistory of the Chickamauga Basin in Tennessee
- ISBN-10
- 0870498630
- ISBN-13
- 9780870498633
- Category
- Chickamauga Lake Watershed (Tenn.)
- Pages
- 681
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Univ. of Tennessee Press
- Authors
- Thomas McDowell Nelson Lewis, Madeline D. Kneberg Lewis
Description
These two volumes look at the excavation of the thirteen archaeological sites of the Chickamauga Basin in the 1930s. These reports were the first comprehensive descriptions of the Native American cultures that lived near what is now Chattanooga before and at the time of European contact.
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