Preface | p. xiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xix |
Archaeology in the Dark Zone: Patty Jo Watson and the Pursuit of Prehistory in the Caves of the Eastern Woodlands | p. 1 |
Prehistoric Cave Use | |
Increasing the Resolution of Cave Archaeology: Micromorphology and the Classification of Burned Deposits at Dust Cave | p. 27 |
Peeling Back the Layers of Time: Nels C. Nelson and the Mammoth Cave Vestibule | p. 49 |
The 1978 Field Season at Mammoth Cave National Park | p. 63 |
Gypsum Mining at Indian Salts Cave: An Examination of Early Woodland Subterranean Mineral Extraction | p. 79 |
Deep Cave Mining: Archaeological and GIS Investigations of a Prehistoric Gypsum Mine at Hubbards Cave | p. 97 |
From Dripline to Deep Cave: On Sheltered Sites as Archaeobotanical Contexts | p. 117 |
Developments in Human Paleofecal Research: Examining Past and Current Studies from Eastern North America | p. 127 |
Big Cave Archaeology in the East Fork Obey River Gorge | p. 141 |
Torches in the Dark: Late Mississippian Exploration of Hubble Post Office Cave | p. 157 |
On the Backs of Serpents: Prehistoric Cave Art in the Southeastern Woodlands | p. 169 |
Cavers and Archaeologists: The Study of Mud Glyph Cave | p. 193 |
Picture Cave: The Study, Dating, and Gating of a Rare Prehistoric American Indian Site | p. 203 |
Historic Cave Use | |
Cagle Saltpetre Cave in Van Buren County, Tennessee: The Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century Saltpeter Caves in the Midsouth | p. 219 |
Mammoth Cave's Nineteenth-Century Saltpeter Works: Analysis of the Hydraulic System | p. 235 |
Afterword: Onward into the Darkness (Still Following the Light of Pat Watson's Lamp, of Course) | p. 261 |
Contributors | p. 271 |
Index | p. 273 |
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