This chapter presents a review of health and diet data derived from studies of ancient skeletons from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama to investigate
the health patterns associated with adoption of horticulture in the South Central US.

The first season of the Caves Branch Archaeological Survey (CBAS) project was an intense and productive one. As an outgrowth of work initiated in the area by the Belize
Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance (BVAR) project in the 1990s, the CBAS project’s goal is to produce a broad reconstruction of pre-Hispanic cultural patterns in and around t…[Read more]

This paper presents a synthesis of recent work in the Caves Branch River Valley, which has focused on the many cave and rockshelter ritual sites and the core of the monumental center Deep Valley. These results are supplemented by data generated from prior investigations in the that allows us to establish that small stable communities in the valley…[Read more]

Research by the Belize Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance project during the summers of 2005 and 2006 focused on the excavation of the Caves Branch Rockshelter, as well as the initial surveying and test pitting of other sites in the surrounding river valley. The data from the Caves Branch Rockshelter suggest that a small farming community used…[Read more]