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University of Mississippi

Project Reports

Thorne, Robert M., J. Johnson, and B. Broyles  
1977    Intensive Archaeological Survey and Testing at the Proposed Yellow Creek Power Plant Site, Tishomingo County, Mississippi, submitted to Tennessee Valley Authority, Chattanooga, Tennessee (Robert M. Thorne, Principal Investigator).

Thorne, Robert M., Victor P. Hood, Harry P. Owens, and Allen R. Saltus, eds.
1977    Cultural Resources Survey, Item I, Upper Yazoo Projects, Yazoo River, Mississippi, Between SRM 75.6 and 107.8.   Report submitted to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District. (Robert M. Thorne, Principal Investigator)

Thorne, Robert M., Kenneth M. Binkley, Victor P. Hood, and Allen R. Saltus, eds.
1979    Cultural Resources Survey, Item II, Upper Yazoo Projects, Yazoo River, Mississippi between SRM 107.268 and 131.5.  Report submitted to U.S. Army Engineers, Vicksburg District. (Robert M. Thorne, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay
1980    Cultural resources survey of a portion of the Little Tallahatchie River Valley, Panola County, Mississippi. Submitted to the Vicksburg District Office, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, Mississippi. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Thorne, Robert M., Bette J. Broyles and Jay K. Johnson
1981    Lithic Procurement and Utilization Trajectories: Archaeological Survey and Excavations, Yellow Creek Nuclear Power Plant Site, Tishomingo County, Mississippi: Volume 1.  Archaeological Papers of the Center for Archaeological Research University of Mississippi No. 1, TVA Publications in Anthropology Number 27. (Robert M. Thorne, Principal Investigator).

Thorne, Robert M., Bette J. Broyles and Harry P. Owens
1982    A Cultural Resources Reconnaissance of the Four Corps Owned Lakes in Mississippi: Grenada Lake, Enid Lake, Sardis Lake and Arkabutla Lake. Coauthored with Bette J. Broyles with a section contributed by Harry P. Owens.  Report submitted to the U.S. Army Engineers, Vicksburg District. (Robert M. Thorne, Principal Investigator).

Thorne, Robert M.
1983    Cultural Resources Survey of Items 3 and 4, Upper Yazoo Projects, Mississippi, with a Paleoenvironmental Model of the Lower Yazoo Basin. Report submitted to U.S. Army Engineers, Vicksburg District. (Robert M. Thorne, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay, K. Curry, J. Atkinson and J. Sparks.
1984    Cultural resources survey in the Line Creek Watershed, Chickasaw, Clay and Webster Counties, Mississippi. Submitted to the Soil Conservation Service, Jackson, Mississippi. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay and K. Curry
1984    Cultural resources survey in the Chuquatonchee Creek Watershed, Chickasaw and Webster Counties, Mississippi.  Submitted to the Soil Conservation Service,        Jackson, Mississippi. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay and J. T. Sparks
1984    Cultural resources survey in the upper Yocona River Watershed, Lafayette and Pontotoc Counties, Mississippi (with J. T. Sparks).  Submitted to the Soil Conservation Service, Jackson, Mississippi. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay
1985    Cultural resources survey of the Yalobusha River channel maintenance project, Mississippi, Submitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, Mississippi. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Thorne, Robert M. and Jay K. Johnson
1987    Cultural Resources Studies of Six Watersheds, Demonstration Erosion Control Project, Yazoo Basin, Mississippi Phase I. Report submitted to the U.S. Army Engineers, Vicksburg District (Robert M. Thorne, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay, G.R. Lehmann, J.R. Atkinson, S.L. Scott, and A. Shea
1991    Protohistoric Chickasaw settlement patterns and the De Soto route in northeast Mississippi. Submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Geographic Society. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay and K.L. Styer
1991    An evaluation of controlled surface collections from three potential DeSoto contact sites in western Mississippi.  Submitted to the Coahoma County Board of Supervisors. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay and M.M. Holland
1992    Baseline archaeological data recovery at the Harmon Mounds Site (22PA500), Panola County, Mississippi.  Submitted to the Panola County Industrial Authority. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay, J. Yearous and N. Ross-Stallings
1992    The eighteenth century Chickasaw occupation at the Meadowbrook Site in northeast Mississippi. Submitted to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Clyde Whitaker and Associates, and the Chickasaw Nation. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Thorne, Robert M. and Hugh K. Curry
1997    Phase I Archaeological Survey of 3,546 Acres, Choctaw County, Mississippi, With Recommendations for Additional Work.  Report submitted to the Cultural Resources Program, Tennessee Valley Authority, Norris, TN (Robert M. Thorne, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay
1997    Cultural resource studies in nine watersheds, demonstration erosion control project, Yazoo Basin, Mississippi.  Submitted to the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, Mississippi.  (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Thorne, Robert M. and Hugh K. Curry
1998    A Report of Finds Produced by Archaeological Testing of Seven Sites, Red Hills Project Area, Choctaw County, Mississippi, with Hugh K. Curry.  Report submitted to the Cultural Resources Program, Tennessee Valley Authority, Norris, TN (Robert M. Thorne, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay, Gena M. Aleo, Rodney T. Stuart, and John Sullivan
1998    The 1996 excavations at the Batesville Mounds: A Woodland period platform mound complex in Northwest Mississippi.  Submitted to the Panola County Industrial Authority. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay, Robert M. Thorne and Carla Launius Hildebrand
1999    Cultural resources survey, Upper Yazoo Projects, Greenwood to Darling, Yazoo Basin, Mississippi.  Submitted to the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, Mississippi. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay, Richard Stallings, Nancy Ross-Stallings, R. Berle Clay, and V. Stephen Jones
2000    Remote sensing and ground truth at the Hollywood Mounds Site in Tunica County, Mississippi.  Submitted to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay, Bryan S. Haley, and Richard Stallings
2002    The Utility of Low Cost Thermal Sensors in Archaeological Research.  Submitted to the Office of Naval Research. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay
2003    The Chickasaws: Economics, Politics, and Social Organization in the Early Eighteenth Century, A Progress Report.  Submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay K. and Bryan S. Haley
2004    Geophysical Survey of Historic Sites Located at Strawberry Plains Audubon Center, Holly Springs, Mississippi.  Submitted to the Strawberry Plains Audubon Center. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay K. . John W. O’Hear, Robbie Ethridge, Brad Lieb, Susan L. Scott, H. Edwin Jackson, Keith Jacobi, and Donna Courtney Rausch
2004    The Chickasaws: Economics, Politics, and Social Organization in the Early Eighteenth Century, Final Report.  Submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay K. and Bryan S. Haley
2004    A Search for Fort Wool Using Archaeological Geophysical Survey Techniques. Submitted to the Georgia Department of Transportation. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay K. and Bryan S. Haley
2005    Geophysical Survey of a Suspected Burial Area in the Florida Panhandle.  Submitted to the Archaeology Institute, University of West Florida. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay K. and Bryan S. Haley
2005    A Search for Fort Louis de la Mobile with Archaeological Geophysics.  Submitted to the Center for Archaeological Studies, University of South Alabama. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay K. and Bryan S. Haley
2011    A Ground-Penetrating Radar, Gradiometer, and Electromagnetic Induction Survey of a Portion of the Mansfield Civil War Battlefield.  Report to the American Battlefield Protection Program, National Park Service. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay, Bryan S. Haley and Edward R. Henry
2012    Remote Sensing Research in Support of Archaeological Investigations at Four Localities on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.  Submitted to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay and Edward R. Henry
2012    Archaeological Investigation of the Proposed UMMC Roadway Project Area, Jackson MS.  Submitted to Cook Douglas Farr Lemons Architects and Engineers PA. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay, Bryan Haley and Travis Cureton
2013    Geophysical Survey and Testing at Cedarscape, Lee County, Mississippi Final Report.  Submitted to the Chickasaw Nation. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Johnson, Jay K. and Edward R. Henry
2013    Archaeological Investigations of a Proposed Parking Garage on the UMMC Campus, Jackson, MS (Edward R. Henry and Jay K. Johnson).  Submitted to UMMC Construction Office. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Cureton, Travis, Stephen Harris, Nicholas P. Herrmann, Monica Warner, and Jay K. Johnson
2014    Archaeological Survey of Site 22Hi859: A Historic Cemetery on the University of Mississippi Medical Center Campus, Jackson, Mississippi. Submitted to UMMC Construction Office. (Jay Johnson, Principal Investigator).

Cureton, Travis, Sam Butz, Todd McLeod and Jay K. Johnson
2014    Archaeologic Survey of a Historic Poorhouse Cemetery in Lafayette County, Mississippi.  Submitted to the Mississippi Department of Transportation. (Travis Cureton, Principal Investigator).

Billstrand, Nicholas and Edmond A. Boudreaux III
2016 Cultural Resources Survey of a Proposed Industrial Site in Jones County, Mississippi. Submitted to Headwaters, Inc., Ridgeland, Mississippi. (Edmond A. Boudreaux III, Principal Investigator).

2016 Cultural Resources Survey of 275 Acres in Jones County, Mississippi. Submitted to Headwaters, Inc., Ridgeland, Mississippi. (Edmond A. Boudreaux III, Principal Investigator).