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The Archaeological Situation at Spiro, Oklahoma; A Preliminary Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Kenneth Gordon Orr
Kenneth Gordon Orr*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
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Since its discovery and exploitation by commercial diggers in 1933, the unusually rich ceremonial complex of the Spiro Mounds, Leflore County, Oklahoma, has engaged the interest of archaeologists. The importance of the Spiro site to Southeastern archaeology has been recognized, and the science has awaited report of the scientific excavation undertaken by the Work Projects Administration and the University of Oklahoma for a number of years. No comprehensive report on this important area has been published to date.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , April 1946 , pp. 228 - 256
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1946

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