[...]... sustenance and occupants for Bottle Creek came Chris Rodning’s very careful and precise historical and archaeological work at the canal on Mound Island clearly shows that this waterway, whether natural or not, was a key element in the site s functionality and was a factor in the mental geography of the site builders His reprise of water transport again illustrates that Pensacola is an estuarine and coastal culture. .. Bottle Creek site indicate that this ceremonial center, in size and magnitude of construction, ranks second only to the great center at Moundville and represents one of the major protohistoric sites in Alabama and the Southeast Walthall 1980:269 The principal occupation at Bottle Creek was by people of the Pensacola culture (a. d 1250–1700) Pensacola culture is an archaeological variant of the widespread... of the Mary Harmon Bryant Hall at the University of Alabama and a lab on the third ®oor Its research focuses on the prehistory and history of the northern Gulf Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States My students and I currently are conducting ¤eld projects in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana 2 / Ian W Brown 1.1 Location of the Bottle Creek site in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, Alabama (from... made by alligator tails on the ground and bear claw marks high on trees Refrain from obvious curiosity and stay on trail About a half mile into your walk stop abruptly at a mountain This is Mound A Note that you are standing on pottery, shell, and other debris Apply more bug spray and listen to owl call your name Walk back a bit and admire smaller mounds that you had already passed You are now standing... sojourned annually [Walthall and Emerson 1992; Brose 1983]) It is worth remembering that southeastern archaeology began in south xxii / Foreword Alabama and it was directed to the late Renaissance antiquarian desire to join New World archaeological and ethnographic objects with the arts of the ancient world (Brose 2002) As Ian Brown reminds us, in 1702 Bienville with an Indian guide visited an island in the... sketches have provided a very realistic feel to the site, far better than photographs; Douglas Jones, Executive Director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History; Jim Parker, Coordinator of Archaeological and Military Properties for the Alabama Historical Commission; Charles and Wyline Ebert, friends of the ¤rst order; and Davida Hastie, Grande Dame of Baldwin County The University of Alabama Press has believed... County, Alabama This multi-mound Pensacola culture site was erected on the northern end of Mound Island, sandwiched between Middle River and Bottle Creek David L DeJarnette of the Alabama Museum of Natural History conducted preliminary investigations in 1932 and this museum has continued its interest in the site in the 1990s through the work of the Gulf Coast Survey.1 Major excavations were undertaken in. .. believing they already had the kind of interpretation of Pensacola culture they deemed indispensable for understanding archaeology as anthropology (i.e., Willey and Phillips 1958) Now, with diligence and intelligent commitment, Ian Brown, his colleagues and their students here ¤nally document some of the basic characteristics of the Bottle Creek site and, thus in many ways, aspects of Pensacola as a separate... getting this volume over and done with A couple of years ago, Dr Charles B Rodning, Professor and Vice-Chairman in the Department of Surgery at the University of South Alabama (and father of Chris), took me to the side at a Southeastern Archaeological Conference and reminded me that Bottle Creek s 300th anniversary was right around the corner On March 4, 1702, the site was “discovered” by Jean-Baptiste... arranged by analysis zones 56 2.10 “Fineware” pottery series in the Mound A excavations, arranged by analysis zones 57 2.11 “Coarseware” pottery series in the Mound C excavations, arranged by analysis zones 58 2.12 “Fineware” pottery series in the Mound C excavations, arranged by analysis zones 59 2.13 “Fineware” pottery series in the Mound C excavations, arranged by analysis zones (including Feature 3) . OF ALABAMA PRESS Tuscaloosa and London Copyright © 2003 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0380 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Typeface:. Creek Site (Ala.) 2. Mississippian culture Alabama Mound Island. 3. Mississippian pottery Alabama Mound Island. 4. Excavations (Archaeology)— Alabama Mound Island. 5. Mound Island (Ala.)—Antiquities Pensacola motifs appeared in Alabama north of Mo- bile Bay. In interpreting the signi¤cance of these Apalachicola River sites as a re- sponsible colleague, thesis chair (e.g., White 1982; Scarry