Midwest (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry Miller.

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IMAGE Timothy Pauketat.

This is an image of a Ramey Knife. Photo courtesy of Tim Pauketat.

IMAGE Uploaded by: Jacob Skousen

This is an image of Ramey Knives. Image from lithiccastinglab.com

DOCUMENT Full-Text Heather Walder. Yolona Ngandali.

A recent reanalysis of the spatial distribution of artifacts from the Bell site (47WN9) near Oshkosh, Wisconsin, provides an updated interpretation of seventeenth and early eighteenth century activities associated with the Grand Village of the Meskwaki in that locale. Although archaeologists now routinely conduct analyses of artifact distributions at the intrasite level, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and other mapping technologies to record and visualize spatial data, sometimes even...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J. Meyer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Pandemic Fieldwork: Doing Fieldwork During a Pandemic" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the past 15 years, the Missouri Department of Transportation has conducted multiple archaeological investigations, including several large-scale data recovery projects, along major highways in St. Louis county and city. Each succeeding project has had to overcome new and seemingly unique obstacles in order to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J. O'Brien.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is an illustration and description of numerous shell fragments depicting the birdman. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 209.1.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Peregrine.

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IMAGE Timothy Pauketat.

Carving representing the Braden A style, from Spiro, Oklahoma. Dates to AD 1200. This image is interpreted as the Morning Star by James Brown. According to Tim Pauketat and others, the long nosed god maskette earrings reference Tlaloc imagery.

IMAGE Uploaded by: Jacob Skousen

This is an image of a shell gorget from Spiro. Shows two "Star Men." Image courtesy of Tim Pauketat.

PROJECT Uploaded by: Heather Walder

This project contains all data for Heather Walder's dissertation, completed in spring of 2015. Abstract: This dissertation addresses the timing of the introduction, exchange, and social implications of two complementary lines of evidence, reworked copper and brass objects and glass trade beads, from 38 archaeological sites of the Upper Great Lakes region dated to c. 1630 to 1730. In this situation of intercultural contact and colonialism, local Midwestern Native peoples encountered...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Heather Walder.

This dissertation addresses the timing of the introduction, exchange, and social implications of two complementary lines of evidence, reworked copper and brass objects and glass trade beads, from 38 archaeological sites of the Upper Great Lakes region dated to c. 1630 to 1730. In this situation of intercultural contact and colonialism, local Midwestern Native peoples encountered European-made trade items, displaced Native newcomers, and eventually non-Native explorers, traders, and missionaries....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sydney M Swierenga.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During World War II, over thirty US aircraft carriers supported the war effort but none were more unique than USS Wolverine and USS Sable. Converted from the luxurious Great Lakes passenger steamships, SS Seeandbee and SS Greater Buffalo, into aircraft training carriers, the ships underwent remarkable transformations at a time when America was facing material shortages and desperately...