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The work of current and former Mississippi State faculty members is being featured in American Archaeology magazine.
An article by Iris Picat titled "Saving a Mississippian Village" deals with Lyon's Bluff, a Mississippian Period research site located several miles from the university campus that was home to a mound and village 1000-1650 A.D.
With permission of the Archaeological Conservancy, publisher of the magazine, the fall edition article may be accessed via the Web page of MSU's department of anthropology and Middle Eastern studies. The link is http://www.amec.msstate.edu/pdf/lyons-bluff.pdf.
Faculty archaeologist Richard Marshall, now retired, led excavations as far back as the 1960s. Associate professor Evan Peacock, a member of the department and Cobb Institute of Archaeology, continued work there earlier this decade.
According to the article, the conservancy currently has an option to purchase about half--or some 20 acres--of the Lyon's Bluff site. For more about the Albuquerque, N.M.-based non-profit organization, visit http://www.americanarchaeology.com/aaabout.html.
For more from a campus perspective, contact Peacock at 662-325-1663 or peacock@anthro.msstate.edu.
Marshall, an associate professor emeritus, resides in Starkville and may be reached at 324-0059.