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Books and Monographs

2019    China Memories: Journal of an Archaeologist in the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River in 1999. The University Press of the South, New Orleans.
 
2019    Second Creek Archaeology: A Glimpse into Mississippi's Past, by Daniel A. LaDu and Ian W. Brown. Borgo Publishing, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
 
2016    Marking Graves in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama:The Musings of a Teacher.Borgo Publishing, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

2015    The Petite Anse Project, Investigations along the West-central Coast of Louisiana, 1978-1979. Foreword by Dennis Jones. Edited by Charles R. McGimsey. A Special Publication of the Louisiana Archaeological Society. Borgo Publishing, Tuscaloosa.
 
2014    Time Travelers in England: Americans in Search of Salt. Borgo Publishing, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
 
2013    The Red Hills of Essex: Studying Salt in England. Borgo Publishing, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
 
2013    Above and Beyond the Pale: A Portrait of Life and Death in Ireland. Borgo Publishing, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
 
2012    Bottle Creek Reflections: The Personal Side of Archaeology in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. Borgo Publishing, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
 
2010    The Peabody Man: Jeffrey P. Brain. Borgo Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama (editor, Ian W. Brown and Vincas Steponaitis).
 
2009    An Archaeological Survey in Clarke County, Alabama. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History No. 26. The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
 
2003    Bottle Creek, A Pensacola Culture Site in South Alabama (editor). The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

1998    Decorated Pottery of the Lower Mississippi Valley: A Sorting Manual. Mississippi Archaeological Association, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson.

1998    The Mound Island Project: An Archaeological Survey in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta, by Richard S. Fuller and Ian W. Brown. Bulletin of the Alabama Museum of Natural History No. 19. The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

1996    Alabama Archeology, Now and Forever? (Kristen Zschomler and Ian W. Brown). Alabama Historical Commission, Montgomery.

1993    Bottle Creek Research: Working Papers on the Bottle Creek Site (1Ba2), Baldwin County, Alabama, edited by Ian W. Brown and Richard S. Fuller, pp. 36-114. Journal of Alabama Archaeology, Vol. 40, Nos. 1-2.

1990    Hall of the North American Indians, by Hillel S. Burger (photographer), Ian W. Brown (introduction and object captions) and Barbara Isaac (editor). Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University.

1985    Natchez Indian Archaeology: Culture Change and Stability in the Lower Mississippi Valley.  Mississippi Department of Archives and History Archaeological Report No. 15. Jackson.

1982    The Southeastern Check Stamped Pottery Tradition: A View from Louisiana. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology Special Paper No. 4.  Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio.

1982    Robert S. Neitzel: The Great Sun, by Jeffrey P. Brain and Ian W. Brown. LMS Bulletin No. 9. Peabody Museum, Harvard University.

1980    Salt and the Eastern North American Indian. Lower Mississippi Survey Bulletin No. 6.  Peabody Museum, Harvard University.

1979.    Early 18th Century French-Indian Culture Contact in the Yazoo Bluffs Region of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Brown University, and Michigan Microfilms, Ann Arbor.    

1978    James Alfred Ford, the Man and His Works. Southeastern Archaeological Conference Special Publication No. 4


​Selected Articles Relating to Research

2019    The Southern African-American Burial Pattern, as Represented at Gadsden's Alabama City Cemetery. AGS Quarterly, Bulletin of the Association for Gravestone Studies, Vol.4 3, No. 1 (spring), pp. 30-39.
 
2018    The Mississippian Site of Origin for the So-Called Moundville Spider, by Duane Esarey, Ian W. Brown, and Anjaneen Campbell. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 23-34.
 
2017    The Grand Village of the Natchez Was Indeed Grand: A Reconsideration of the Fatherland Site Landscape, by Ian W. Brown and Vincas P. Steponaitis. In Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Folklore of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, edited by Gregory A. Waselkov and Marvin T. Smith, pp. 182-204. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. 
 
2017    The Sandstone Grave Markers of Greenwood Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, by Daniel A. LaDu and Ian W. Brown. Markers Vol. XXXIII, pp. 50-81. 

2015    Certain Trends in Eastern Woodlands Salt Production Technology, by Paul N. Eubanks and Ian W. Brown. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 40, No. 3, pp. 231-256.

2015    Plaquemine Culture Pottery from the Great Ravine at the Anna Site (22AD500), Adams County, Mississippi. In Exploring Southeastern Archaeology, edited by Patricia Galloway and Evan Peacock, pp. 216-239. The University Press of Mississippi, Jackson.
 
2014    Foreword. Stone Age Man in the Middle South and Other Writings, Vol. I of II by William Edward Myer, edited by Donald B. Ball, pp. xxxiii-xxxiv. Borgo Publishing, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 
 
2014    Foreword. In A Graveyard Preservation Primer (2nd edition), by Lynette Strangstad, pp. xi-xii. AltaMira Press, A Division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland.
 
2014    Summary, Comparisons, Conclusions, and Conjectures, by Marvin D. Jeter, Samuel O. Brookes, Ian W. Brown, and Marie Elaine Danforth. In The Mangum Site: A Late Prehistoric Cemetery in Southwestern Mississippi with ‘Southern Cult’ Connections to Plaquemine Culture, edited by Marvin D. Jeter. Mississippi Archaeology for 2009 Vol. 44, Nos. 1-2, pp. 201-242.
 
2011    Alabama’s Archaeological Sites: A Fragile Responsibility. Alabama Heritage No. 99, Winter, pp. 42-47.
 
2011    Festivals. In American Centuries: The Ideas, Issues, and Values That Shaped U. S. History, Volume 1–16th Century, edited by Karen O. Kupperman, pp. 101-104. Facts on File, MTM Publishing, Inc. New York, New York. 
 
2010   The Archaeology of Salt Springs in the Eastern Woodlands of the United States. In Salt Archaeology in China, Vol. 2: Global Comparative Studies, edited by Shuicheng Li and Lothar von Falkenhausen, pp. 375-409. Kexue chubanshe (Science Press), Beijing.
 
2010    Comparison of the Briquetage from Zhongba to Finds from the Essex Red Hills of Southeast England. In Salt Archaeology in China, Vol. 2: Global Comparative Studies, edited by Shuicheng Li and Lothar von Falkenhausen, pp. 321-345. Kexue chubanshe (Science Press), Beijing.
 
2010    The Rhythm Night Club Fire of 1940 and the Watkins Street Cemetery, Natchez, Mississippi. AGS Quarterly Vol. 34, NNo. 3, pp. 4-7.
 
2009    Interpretation at the Trowel’s Edge: A Consideration of Theory in Archaeology. In Advancing the National Park Idea: National Parks Second Century Commission Report. Appendix A: Cultural Resource and Historic Preservation Committee Information, pp. 43-53. National Parks Conservation Association (www.npca.org). 
 
2009    The Olson House and Andrew Wyeth. AGS Quarterly Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 6-7.
 
2008    Culture Contact along the I-69 Corridor: Protohistoric and Historic Use of the Northern Yazoo Basin, Mississippi. In Time's River: Archaeological Syntheses in the Yazoo Basin and Lower Mississippi River Valley, edited by Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock, pp. 357-394. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
 
2007   Bottle Creek Site. In Encyclopedia of Alabama. Alabama Humanities Foundation and Auburn University, Montgomery. http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org.
 
2007   Plaquemine Culture in the Natchez Bluffs Region of Mississippi. In Plaquemine Archaeology, edited by Mark Rees and Patrick Livingood, pp. 145-160. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
 
2006    The Calumet Ceremony in the Southeast as Observed Archaeologically. In Powhatan’s Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast (revised and expanded edition), edited by Gregory A. Waselkov, Peter H. Wood, and Tom Hatley, pp. 371-419. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London.  
 
2006    The Pointed-base Pottery Cup Vessel Form: A Probable Tool of Salt Production. In Salt Archaeology in China: Ancient Salt Production and Landscape Archaeology in the Upper Yangzi Basin: Preliminary Studies. Vol. 1, edited by Shuicheng Li and Lothar von Falkenhausen, pp. 260-285. Kexue chubanshe (Science Press), Beijing.
 
2006    Report on the Preliminary Field Season in 1999 (March 1-28, 1999), by Lothar von Falkenhausen and Ian W. Brown. In Salt Archaeology in China: Ancient Salt Production and Landscape Archaeology in the Upper Yangzi Basin: Preliminary Studies. Vol. 1, edited by Shuicheng Li and Lothar von Falkenhausen, pp. 30-113. Kexue chubanshe (Science Press), Beijing.
 
2005    The Birthplace of Tabasco® Sauce: Excavations at the Laboratory, Avery Island, Louisiana, Ashley A. Dumas and Ian W. Brown. In The William G. (Bill) Haag Honorary Symposium, March 7–March 9, 2002, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, edited by Paul Farnsworth, Charles H. McNutt, and Stephen Williams (editors), pp. 199-219. The University of Memphis Anthropological Research Center Occasional Paper No. 26. Memphis.
 
2005    Calumets. In Tobacco in History and Culture, an Encyclopedia, edited by Jordan Goodman, pp. 103-105.  Charles Scribner’s Sons, Farmington Hills, Michigan.
 
2004    Cemetery Clean-ups, Stepping Stones to History. AGS Quarterly, Bulletin of the Association for Gravestone Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 16-17.

2004    Prehistory of the Gulf Coastal Plain after 500 B.C. In Southeast, edited by Raymond D. Fogelson, pp. 574-585. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 14, William C. Sturtevant, general editor. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

2004    Some Grave Houses in West-central Alabama. AGS Quarterly, Bulletin of the Association for Gravestone Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 14-15.

2004    Why Study Salt? Journal of Alabama Archaeology 50(1):36-49.

2003    Working with Students in Cemeteries. AGS Quarterly, Bulletin of the Association for Gravestone Studies, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Summer), p. 22.  

1999    Salt Manufacture and Trade from the Perspective of Avery Island, Louisiana. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 113-151.

1999    Contact, Communication, and Exchange: Some Thoughts on the Rapid Movement of Ideas and Objects. In Raw Materials and Exchange in the Mid-South, edited by Evan Peacock and Samuel O. Brookes, pp. 132-141. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archaeological Report No. 29. Jackson.

1998    Benjamin L. C. Wailes and the Archaeology of Mississippi. Mississippi Archaeology, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 157-191.

1998    The Eighteenth-Century Natchez Chiefdom. In The Natchez District in the Old, Old South, edited by Vincas P. Steponaitis, pp. 49-65. Southern Research Report No. 11. Academic Affairs Library, Center for the Study of the American South, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

1998    Fatherland Site. In Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Guy Gibbon, pp. 269-270. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

1998    Plaquemine Culture. In Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia, edited by Guy Gibbon, pp. 657-659. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

1994    Recent Trends in the Archaeology of the Southeastern United States. Journal of Archaeological Research, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 45-111. 

1993    Behind Glass in Russia 1992: Memoir of a People to People Archaeology Delegate. In Journal of the Citizen Ambassador Program Archaeology Delegation to Russia, September 20 - October 3, 1992, by Shereen Lerner, Delegation Leader. Appendix E.  Spokane, Washington.

1993    Analysis of Bottle Creek Pottery at the Alabama Museum of Natural History, by Richard S. Fuller and Ian W. Brown. In Bottle Creek Research: Working Papers on the Bottle Creek Site (1Ba2), Baldwin County, Alabama, edited by Ian W. Brown and Richard S. Fuller, pp. 36-114. Journal of Alabama Archaeology, Vol. 40, Nos. 1-2.

1993    Preliminary Report on Gulf Coast Survey Excavations at Bottle Creek, 1991, by Ian W. Brown and Richard S. Fuller. In Bottle Creek Research: Working Papers on the Bottle Creek Site (1Ba2), Baldwin County, Alabama, edited by Ian W. Brown and Richard S. Fuller, pp. 151-169. Journal of Alabama Archaeology, Vol. 40, Nos. 1-2.
 
1993    The New England Cemetery as a Cultural Landscape. In History from Things—Working Papers on Material Culture, edited by Steven Lubar and W. David Kingery, pp. 140-159. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

1993    William Bartram and the Direct Historic Approach. In Archaeology of Eastern North America, Papers in Honor of Stephen Williams, edited by James B. Stoltman, pp. 277-282. Mississippi Department of Archives and History Archaeological Report No. 25.

1992    Certain Aspects of French-Indian Interaction in Lower Louisiane. In Calumet and Fleur-de-Lys, edited by Thomas E. Emerson and John A. Walthall, pp. 17-34. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

1992    The Lamson-Carved Gravestones of Watertown, Massachusetts. In The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology: Essays in Honor of James Deetz, edited by Anne E. Yentsch and Mary C. Beaudry, pp. 165-191. CRC Press, Inc. Boca Raton, etc.

1990    Cyrus Thomas and the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology. In Edward Palmer’s Arkansaw Mounds, edited by Marvin D. Jeter, pp. 23-27. The University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville and London.

1990    Historic Indians of the Lower Mississippi Valley: An Archaeologist’s View. In Towns and Temples along the Mississippi, edited by David Dye and Cheryl Cox, pp. 227-238. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.

1989    The Calumet Ceremony in the Southeast and its Archaeological Manifestations. American Antiquity, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 311-333.

1989    Natchez Indians and the Remains of a Proud Past. In Natchez Before 1830, edited by Noel Polk, pp. 8-28. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson and London.

1985    Plaquemine Architectural Patterns in the Natchez Bluffs and Surrounding Regions of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 250-305.

1984    Late Prehistory in Coastal Louisiana: The Coles Creek Period. In Perspectives on Gulf Coast Prehistory, edited by David D. Davis, pp. 94-124.  Ripley P. Bullen Monographs in Anthropology and History No. 5. University Presses of Florida, Gainesville.

1982    An Archaeological Study of Culture Contact and Change in the Natchez Bluffs Region. In LaSalle and His Legacy, edited by Patricia K. Galloway, pp. 176-193. University Press of Mississippi, Jackson.

1981    A Study of Stone Box Graves in Eastern North America. Tennessee Anthropologist, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 1-26.

1981    The Morgan Site: An Important Coles Creek Mound Complex on the Chenier Plain of Southwest Louisiana. North American Archaeologist, Vol.  2, No. 3, pp. 207-237.

1979    Functional Group Changes and Acculturation: A Case Study of the French and Indian in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 147-165.
 




 
 

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