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ABORIGINAL SITES ON TENNESSEE RIVER. 
By CLARENCE PB. Moore. 
INTRODUCTION. 
That subdivision of the United States of America known as the State of 
Tennessee takes its name from that of two or more Cherokee settlements.’ 
The meaning of the word (Tanasi) has not been determined. 
The archeology of few States of the Union has been more widely described 
than has that of Tennessee, especially the region having the city of Nashville 
as a center. 
Archeological investigations, mainly in eastern Tennessee, conducted by 
Rev. E. O. Dunning in behalf of Peabody Museum of Harvard University, are 
included in the Third (1870) and Fifth (1872) Annual Reports of that institution, 
with an account of the collection by Jeffries Wyman. 
The explorations of Joseph Jones, M.D., mainly in the Cumberland valley, 
are described by him in “Explorations of the Aboriginal Remains of Tennessee.” 
Prof. Frederic Ward Putnam gives an account of his archeological researches 
in central Tennessee in the Eleventh Annual Report of Peabody Museum of 
Harvard University, 1878. These explorations were continued under Professor 
Putnam’s direction by Mr. E. Curtis until 1880. Numerous references to this 
work are given in the Reports of the Museum to 1881. 
Archeological work in Tennessee by agents of the Bureau of American Eth- 
nology, mainly along the Little Tennessee, but including a few sites on Tennessee 
river, is described in the Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau. 
In the Reports of the Smithsonian Institution, passim, are to be found accounts 
of archeological research in Tennessee. 
A partial list of Tennessee mounds and sites is given by Cyrus Thomas in 
his “ Catalogue of Prehistoric Works East of the Rocky Mountains,” Bureau of 
of American Ethnology, 1891. 
Prof. William H. Holmes, in various writings contained in the Annual Reports 
of the Bureau of American Ethnology, notably in his “ Art in Shell of the Ancient 
Americans,’’! and his “Aboriginal Pottery of Eastern United States,” discusses 
the aboriginal art of Tennessee. 
The late General Gates P. Thruston, in his comprehensive work, “ The Anti- 
1 “Handbook of American Indians," Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 30. 
? Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Vol. XXII, p. 259, 1876. 
3 Bulletin 12. 
5 Second Annual Report, pp. 179-305. 
5 Twentieth Annual Report, pp. 1-201. 
