The Tennessee, Green, and Lower Ohio Rivers Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore

Download or read book The Tennessee, Green, and Lower Ohio Rivers Expeditions of Clarence Bloomfield Moore written by Clarence Bloomfield Moore and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2002-07-17 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This oversized reprint volume presents original materials from Moore's northernmost expeditions conducted in the early 1900s as he surveyed areas of potential archaeological interest in the southeastern United States. Some of the sites he found were later targeted for major excavations during the days of the WPA/CCC. Many National Register Historic Sites are today located along the rivers he explored in this work. In many cases, however, Moore's report documents sites since destroyed by river action or by lake impoundments behind hydroelectric dams or by looters. As with all of Moore's other in.