Books and Monographs
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.
1978 James Alfred Ford, the Man and His Works. Southeastern Archaeological Conference Special Publication No. 4
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.
1978 James Alfred Ford, the Man and His Works. Southeastern Archaeological Conference Special Publication No. 4
Selected Articles Relating to Research
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 34(3):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 33(4):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.