ABSTRACT While there has been much research on the function of stone tools via use-wear analysis,... more ABSTRACT While there has been much research on the function of stone tools via use-wear analysis, it is clear that a multipronged approach, including an evaluation of material acquisition, production, and tool use, is necessary if tool function is going to prove truly useful for understanding past cultures. Moreover, the role of chipped lithic tools in the economies of agriculture-based populations has seen little research compared to preagricultural systems. A sample of lithic artifacts from the Crescent Bay Hunt Club site, a twelfth- to fourteenth-century Oneota village at Lake Koshkonong in southeastern Wisconsin, are subjected to a multiple-method analysis to determine individual tool use. An assemblage-based analysis provides an overall understanding of the lithic economy. A combination of microscopic identification of edge damage and surface polishes and an analysis of protein residue provides independent lines of evidence that yield strong inferences about tool use in the lithic economies of sedentary agricultural groups in the midcontinent.
ABSTRACT Recent growth in cultural resource management in northeastern Illinois presents an excel... more ABSTRACT Recent growth in cultural resource management in northeastern Illinois presents an excellent opportunity to increase our knowledge of prehistoric adaptations to the region's environments. One of the most promising areas is in the development of site-location models. In this article, models of prehistoric site location are developed for bottomland and upland settings in the Illinois-Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor. The models are developed using log[ist]ic regression with data collected during a recent probabilistic survey of the corridor. Bottomland sites are found to be located away from water resources, on well-drained soils with high available moisture. Upland sites, on the other hand, tend to be located way from ecotones, on high elevations near low-ranked water resources and on soils with high available moisture content. The results provide a refinement of previous site-location models for northeastern Illinois and demonstrate the potential of cultural resource management surveys to broaden our knowledge of prehistoric adaptations.
Mortuary archaeology has always been viewed as one of the most richly evocative sources of eviden... more Mortuary archaeology has always been viewed as one of the most richly evocative sources of evidence for past social systems, particularly those without writing. However, the political context within which archaeology developed as a discipline, especially in countries with a colonial past, has made it difficult or impossible for the burial record to be utilized to its full potential. Ironically, this moratorium on the use of human remains for research purposes has been accompanied by the development of new analytical techniques, including ancient DNA (aDNA) and chemical analysis of skeletal material, which provide powerful tools for understanding complex social relationships and mobility within and between ancient populations. This review focuses on the United States and Europe because of the close relationship between their scholarly communities, as a result of which the limits placed on mortuary archaeology in the United States has had and continues to have a direct impact on the d...
A Deep-Time Perspective: Studies in Symbols, …, 2003
Recently, researchers have reexamined the relationships among several Upper Mississippian groups ... more Recently, researchers have reexamined the relationships among several Upper Mississippian groups and Cahokia during the period of circa A.D. 1100-1440. One researcher has suggested that two currently defined ceramic traditions, Langford and Fisher wares, represent the material culture signature of moieties within a single cultural group, defined generically as Oneota. He argues that processual archaeologists have misinterpreted the culture history of the Prairie Peninsula due to a lack understanding concerning Native American power relationships. This study sets out what is currently known about Langford and Fisher material culture, and demonstrates that Langford and Fisher ceramics are material culture remains of related, but distinct, cultural groups.
Carcajou Point is well known as an Oneota site along the shore of Lake Koshkonong in Southeastern... more Carcajou Point is well known as an Oneota site along the shore of Lake Koshkonong in Southeastern Wisconsin. Recent excavations at the site have yielded a Late Woodland component as well as buried Paleoindian and Archaic occupations on a sandy outwash landform in the northern portion of the site. Material recovered includes a large lithic debitage and tool assemblage, as well as pit and hearth features. A preliminary lithic analysis of the materials from the site is presented and some implications for Late Paleoindian and Middle Archaic settlement and lithic economy are discussed.
... Thanks to Jenny Barrett, Stephanie Barnes, Anna Cannizzo, Tina Clement, Stan Coffin, Timothy ... more ... Thanks to Jenny Barrett, Stephanie Barnes, Anna Cannizzo, Tina Clement, Stan Coffin, Timothy Dahlen, Bonnie Flannery, Kate Foley Winkler, Paul Hartman, Stacey Hoepfner, Ralph Koziarski, Louise Lambert, Lora Linder, Anna Lampien, David Lathrop, Nicole ...
World Systems Theory has been one approach used to explain the rise of the Mississippian social a... more World Systems Theory has been one approach used to explain the rise of the Mississippian social and political phenomenon. In this paper it is argued that a hierarchical model of core-periphery interaction does not explain the Cahokianphenomenon, because several crucial clements of such a model cannot be demonstrated to have existed within the Mississippian system. It is suggested that looking at Mississippian society as a differential core-peripheral system may have utility as a framework for including concepts such as gateway communities and interaction spheres previously used to describe the economic interactions between Cahokia and its neighbors.
Ext. de res. d'A.: Experimentally produced chipped-stone debris assemblages are analysed in a... more Ext. de res. d'A.: Experimentally produced chipped-stone debris assemblages are analysed in a blind test to determine if it is possible to distinguish between bipolar and free-hand, hard-hammer reduction techniques. The analysis shows that manufacturing technique can be distingueshed between unmixed assemblages but that individual pieces of debris cannot be ascribted to one technique or the other with confidence. Attribute profiles for bipolar versus free-hand , hard hammer debitage assemblages are developped and applied to data sets from the Koster and Deer Track sites in west-central Illinois. The analysis suggest that bipolar reduction may have played a role in lithic reduction during the Middle Archaic and that this scheme may help to delineate speciam use or activity areas within sites
A sample of lithic artifacts from the Crescent Bay Hunt Club site, a 12th-14th century Oneota vil... more A sample of lithic artifacts from the Crescent Bay Hunt Club site, a 12th-14th century Oneota village at Lake Koshkonong in southeastern Wisconsin, were subjected to a multiple-method analysis to determine individual tool use. In this example, an assemblage based analysis of raw material type and quality, heat alteration and energy input into manufacturing combined with debitage analysis provides an overall understanding of the lithic economy. Triangular bifaces and unifacial tools from Crescent Bay were then subjected to a combination of micro-and macroscopic identification of edge damage and surface polishes, followed by protein residue analysis to provide four independent lines of evidence that yield strong inferences about tool use. This multi-pronged approach to raw material acquisition, tool manufacturing, tool use, and tool discard provides more comprehensive insights into the role of lithic economy in the daily lives of people than are often derived from Late Prehistoric sites in the Midcontinent.
ABSTRACT While there has been much research on the function of stone tools via use-wear analysis,... more ABSTRACT While there has been much research on the function of stone tools via use-wear analysis, it is clear that a multipronged approach, including an evaluation of material acquisition, production, and tool use, is necessary if tool function is going to prove truly useful for understanding past cultures. Moreover, the role of chipped lithic tools in the economies of agriculture-based populations has seen little research compared to preagricultural systems. A sample of lithic artifacts from the Crescent Bay Hunt Club site, a twelfth- to fourteenth-century Oneota village at Lake Koshkonong in southeastern Wisconsin, are subjected to a multiple-method analysis to determine individual tool use. An assemblage-based analysis provides an overall understanding of the lithic economy. A combination of microscopic identification of edge damage and surface polishes and an analysis of protein residue provides independent lines of evidence that yield strong inferences about tool use in the lithic economies of sedentary agricultural groups in the midcontinent.
ABSTRACT Recent growth in cultural resource management in northeastern Illinois presents an excel... more ABSTRACT Recent growth in cultural resource management in northeastern Illinois presents an excellent opportunity to increase our knowledge of prehistoric adaptations to the region's environments. One of the most promising areas is in the development of site-location models. In this article, models of prehistoric site location are developed for bottomland and upland settings in the Illinois-Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor. The models are developed using log[ist]ic regression with data collected during a recent probabilistic survey of the corridor. Bottomland sites are found to be located away from water resources, on well-drained soils with high available moisture. Upland sites, on the other hand, tend to be located way from ecotones, on high elevations near low-ranked water resources and on soils with high available moisture content. The results provide a refinement of previous site-location models for northeastern Illinois and demonstrate the potential of cultural resource management surveys to broaden our knowledge of prehistoric adaptations.
Mortuary archaeology has always been viewed as one of the most richly evocative sources of eviden... more Mortuary archaeology has always been viewed as one of the most richly evocative sources of evidence for past social systems, particularly those without writing. However, the political context within which archaeology developed as a discipline, especially in countries with a colonial past, has made it difficult or impossible for the burial record to be utilized to its full potential. Ironically, this moratorium on the use of human remains for research purposes has been accompanied by the development of new analytical techniques, including ancient DNA (aDNA) and chemical analysis of skeletal material, which provide powerful tools for understanding complex social relationships and mobility within and between ancient populations. This review focuses on the United States and Europe because of the close relationship between their scholarly communities, as a result of which the limits placed on mortuary archaeology in the United States has had and continues to have a direct impact on the d...
A Deep-Time Perspective: Studies in Symbols, …, 2003
Recently, researchers have reexamined the relationships among several Upper Mississippian groups ... more Recently, researchers have reexamined the relationships among several Upper Mississippian groups and Cahokia during the period of circa A.D. 1100-1440. One researcher has suggested that two currently defined ceramic traditions, Langford and Fisher wares, represent the material culture signature of moieties within a single cultural group, defined generically as Oneota. He argues that processual archaeologists have misinterpreted the culture history of the Prairie Peninsula due to a lack understanding concerning Native American power relationships. This study sets out what is currently known about Langford and Fisher material culture, and demonstrates that Langford and Fisher ceramics are material culture remains of related, but distinct, cultural groups.
Carcajou Point is well known as an Oneota site along the shore of Lake Koshkonong in Southeastern... more Carcajou Point is well known as an Oneota site along the shore of Lake Koshkonong in Southeastern Wisconsin. Recent excavations at the site have yielded a Late Woodland component as well as buried Paleoindian and Archaic occupations on a sandy outwash landform in the northern portion of the site. Material recovered includes a large lithic debitage and tool assemblage, as well as pit and hearth features. A preliminary lithic analysis of the materials from the site is presented and some implications for Late Paleoindian and Middle Archaic settlement and lithic economy are discussed.
... Thanks to Jenny Barrett, Stephanie Barnes, Anna Cannizzo, Tina Clement, Stan Coffin, Timothy ... more ... Thanks to Jenny Barrett, Stephanie Barnes, Anna Cannizzo, Tina Clement, Stan Coffin, Timothy Dahlen, Bonnie Flannery, Kate Foley Winkler, Paul Hartman, Stacey Hoepfner, Ralph Koziarski, Louise Lambert, Lora Linder, Anna Lampien, David Lathrop, Nicole ...
World Systems Theory has been one approach used to explain the rise of the Mississippian social a... more World Systems Theory has been one approach used to explain the rise of the Mississippian social and political phenomenon. In this paper it is argued that a hierarchical model of core-periphery interaction does not explain the Cahokianphenomenon, because several crucial clements of such a model cannot be demonstrated to have existed within the Mississippian system. It is suggested that looking at Mississippian society as a differential core-peripheral system may have utility as a framework for including concepts such as gateway communities and interaction spheres previously used to describe the economic interactions between Cahokia and its neighbors.
Ext. de res. d'A.: Experimentally produced chipped-stone debris assemblages are analysed in a... more Ext. de res. d'A.: Experimentally produced chipped-stone debris assemblages are analysed in a blind test to determine if it is possible to distinguish between bipolar and free-hand, hard-hammer reduction techniques. The analysis shows that manufacturing technique can be distingueshed between unmixed assemblages but that individual pieces of debris cannot be ascribted to one technique or the other with confidence. Attribute profiles for bipolar versus free-hand , hard hammer debitage assemblages are developped and applied to data sets from the Koster and Deer Track sites in west-central Illinois. The analysis suggest that bipolar reduction may have played a role in lithic reduction during the Middle Archaic and that this scheme may help to delineate speciam use or activity areas within sites
A sample of lithic artifacts from the Crescent Bay Hunt Club site, a 12th-14th century Oneota vil... more A sample of lithic artifacts from the Crescent Bay Hunt Club site, a 12th-14th century Oneota village at Lake Koshkonong in southeastern Wisconsin, were subjected to a multiple-method analysis to determine individual tool use. In this example, an assemblage based analysis of raw material type and quality, heat alteration and energy input into manufacturing combined with debitage analysis provides an overall understanding of the lithic economy. Triangular bifaces and unifacial tools from Crescent Bay were then subjected to a combination of micro-and macroscopic identification of edge damage and surface polishes, followed by protein residue analysis to provide four independent lines of evidence that yield strong inferences about tool use. This multi-pronged approach to raw material acquisition, tool manufacturing, tool use, and tool discard provides more comprehensive insights into the role of lithic economy in the daily lives of people than are often derived from Late Prehistoric sites in the Midcontinent.
Copper artifacts from two Late Archaic sites (Kelly North Tract at Carcajou Point and the Jaco Si... more Copper artifacts from two Late Archaic sites (Kelly North Tract at Carcajou Point and the Jaco Site) and near-contemporary sites (Aztalan and Crescent Bay Hunt Club) are compared using laser ablation techniques. All four sites are located near Lake Koshkonong and the Rock River, in southeastern Wisconsin. Variation within time periods as well as between time periods is discussed within the broader context of sourcing copper from Great Lakes sites.
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