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Roy S. Dickens

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By Roy S. Dickens

The Historic Occaneechi: An Archaeological Investigation of Culture Change (Final Report)

Dickens, Roy S. · 1986

Roy S. Dickens's final report on the 1986 excavations at the Occaneechi Town site on the Eno River near Hillsborough, prepared by the Research Laboratories of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina and dated May 1987. Funded by a National Geographic Society grant and later numbered as the laboratories' research report 8, it covers the archaeology of the Occaneechi and culture change at the site. 171 leaves with illustrations, maps and a bibliography.

The Siouan Project: Seasons I and II

Dickens, Roy S., Jr.; Ward, H. Trawick; Davis, R. P. Stephen, Jr. · 1987 · Research Laboratories of Anthropology, University of North Carolina

Archaeological report on the first two seasons of the Siouan Project, the University of North Carolina Research Laboratories of Anthropology's study of Siouan-speaking peoples of the Piedmont, edited by Roy S. Dickens Jr., H. Trawick Ward and R. P. Stephen Davis Jr. and published in Chapel Hill in 1987. Subjects include the Wall and Occaneechi Town sites on the Eno at Hillsborough and the Mitchum site. 308 pages with illustrations, maps and a bibliography.

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Research Laboratories of Anthropology of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill records, 1979-1986

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Research Laboratories of Anthropology · 1979

Archaeology records from the Research Laboratories of Anthropology at Chapel Hill, 1979 to 1986, about 400 items in half a linear foot, University Archives at UNC, collection 40220. Topics include archaeology and state policy in North Carolina, law and legislation on human remains, the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs, the state Division of Archives and History, and the archaeologist Roy S. Dickens.

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  1. The Fredricks site is found and excavated and Occaneechi Town is located UNC archaeologists trying to relocate the Wall site in the spring of 1983 found European trade goods among Indian pottery in a garden about a hundred yards away, and dug there for four seasons. They uncovered a palisaded village of about a quarter of an acre with ten to twelve houses set around a plaza, a sweat lodge and a cemetery outside the stockade, and identified it as the Occaneechi town Lawson visited in 1701. People: Roy S. DickensExcavating Occaneechi Town (UNC Press): Fredricks Site Excavation

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