The Mississippian Site of Origin for the So-Called Moundville Spider

Duane Esarey (Ph.D. University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill 2013) worked at Western Illinois University and Dickson Mounds Branch of the Illinois State Museum, and is now Assistant Director of the Illinois State Archaeological Survey. His 40 years experience has focused largely on special attention to Late Woodland and Mississippian prehistoric and protohistoric, as well as Colonial period archaeology, with a recent dissertation on the the 17th century in the colonial Northeast.

Ian W. Brown (Ph.D. Brown University 1979) is Curator of Gulf Coast Archaeology at the Alabama Museum of Natural History and Full Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of Alabama. He has over 40 years of experience in the archaeology of the Lower Mississippi Valley and the Gulf Coastal Plain.

Anjaneen (Campbell) Coble (B.A. Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago 2004) has been associated with a number of archaeological projects in Illinois, Michigan, and Kenya in affiliation with Western Illinois University, Northern Michigan University, and the Field Museum of Natural History. During the time referred to in this article, Angie was affiliated with the Field Museum and researched obscure files there, discovering this artifact’s origination in the Thomas Cleneay collection.