- Archaeological Overview Volume for the Mississippi Portion of Interstate 69 - Interstate 69 has been authorized to form a new connection between Indianapolis, Indiana and southern Texas, crossing the northwest part of Mississippi. The Mississippi Department of Transportation has contracted with Mississippi State University to produce a book that will be an overview of existing archaeological knowledge for the part of the highway corridor running through the state. Janet Rafferty and Evan Peacock are principal investigators for the volume. They will organize and edit the contributions, as well as writing chapters respectively on prehistoric settlement patterning and environmental change. It is planned to have the book published by a university press, making it widely available. One main goal of the volume will be to provide an up-to-date and thorough overview of archaeological knowledge of the I-69 corridor region in northwest and west-central Mississippi. This will expedite report writing on future I-69 archaeology projects, as authors of technical reports refer to this overview rather than having to repeatedly research the literature to produce their own overviews. Additionally, the volume will provide a sound basis, written by respected specialists in each area, for further studies in lithics, ceramics, materials analysis, absolute dating, geophysical methods, archaeobotany, archaeozoology, bioarchaeology, and historical archaeology in the region. Finally, it will encourage future I-69 researchers to focus on artifact variability, problem-oriented approaches, and innovative methods. Participants and topics: Evan Peacock, Mississippi State University Environmental change Robert C. Dunnell, Mississippi State University History of previous archaeological work; culture history and style-based chronology James Feathers, University of Washington Absolute dating S. Homes Hogue, Mississippi State University Bioarchaeology Philip J. Carr, University of South Alabama Lithic technology and function, lithic resources Michael Galaty, Millsaps College Ceramics: petrographic analysis, clay resources Hector Neff, California State University at Long Beach Ceramics: INAA, LA-ICP-MS, other materials analysis H. Edwin Jackson, University of Southern Mississippi Archaeozoology Gayle Fritz, Washington University Archaeobotany Jay K. Johnson, University of Mississippi Geophysics and remote sensing Carl Lipo, California State University at Long Beach Internal site structure Janet Rafferty, Mississippi State University Settlement patterning Ian Brown, University of Alabama Contact Period archaeology Amy L. Young, University of Southern Mississippi Euro- and Afro-American archaeology

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