North America: Midwest (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne Spencer-Wood.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Colonial Archaeological Research in the American Midcontinent" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Applying a feminist intersectionality theoretical perspective in close readings of historical markers in Detroit reveals their intersecting colonialist racist and sexist biases. Of Detroit’s 265 historical markers, 89% include men, 63% include white men, but only 26% include women, of which 71% are white. Native...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Briggs. Xinyuan Zheng. John L. III Berini. Edward P. Fleming.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Strontium and oxygen isotopes preserved within plant and animal remains reflect the regional geology and environment where they originated. This approach relies on a regional map of baseline isotope values – or isoscape – to link values preserved in remains with a region of origin. Mechanistic models, which estimate baseline 87Sr/86Sr based on age and type...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Fenner. Mark Schurr. Madeleine McLeester. Laure Dussubieux.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Precise dating of archaeological sites created during the last millennium often benefit from chronological information provided by trade goods but may be hampered by inversions in the radiocarbon calibration curve. Middle Grant Creek is one such site. It is a protohistoric Native American site near present-day Chicago which has yielded a number of European...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph A. M. Gingerich. David Lamp.

This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we propose a new idea for the early colonization of Ohio, which is likely applicable to other previously glaciated regions. Concentrations of Paleoindian materials around wetland features may represent the first resource locales exploited during colonization. These areas became less attractive as megafauna and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Baltus. Sarah Baires.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Cahokian sphere, building termination was embedded within broader relational practices tied to politico-religious space and neighborhood dynamics. Drawing from our preliminary analyses of three buildings in the Spring Lake Tract of ‘Downtown’ Cahokia, we argue for an intentional closing down of these buildings using fire and earth. Focusing here on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Bodenstein.

In this paper, I compare using latex and Sculpey molds with a NextEngine 3D scanner in creating positive copies of upper midwestern, Late-Woodland, cord-impressed pottery for analysis. Making cast positives of these impressions in casting mediums present different hazards to the sherd. A NextEngine 3D Scanner may present fewer hazards to sherds, while allowing for digital copies that are easily manipulated and measured. It is also portable and relatively inexpensive compared to other 3D scanning...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary De La Garza.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The use of aerial remote sensing technology to detect, collect, and investigate archaeological data is an increasingly popular component of archaeological research. Data from drone-based lidar collected below 400 feet allows archaeologists to construct detailed 3D images of the ground surface. During 2023, the University of Iowa Office of the State...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Benson.

The transition between early (AD 1050-1200) and late Mississippian (AD 1200-1350) in the American Bottom is recognized as a significant moment of socio-political and religious change in the historical trajectory of Cahokia. During this time, relationships between persons, places, and things transformed, resulting in different ways of engaging with both Cahokia and the non-human powers that underwrote it and the broader Mississippian world. With a goal of investigating a Moorehead phase...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Deepro Sanjid Qais. Candace Sall. Alexa Kuo. Brandi MacDonald.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chemical analysis of glass beads using laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) is a commonly applied technique in archaeometric analysis. The compositional study of glass and glass objects provides insight into the raw materials used, and their manufacturing processes and workshop origins. Among many early historic period...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Rankin.

This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ongoing geoarchaeological research studying the relationship between urbanism and environmental change at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Cahokia Mounds has begun to unravel a pre-contact landscape concealed by historic land-use practices. Archaeological excavations and sediment coring conducted to understand the environmental conditions during the construction and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Upton.

Prior scholarship on intercultural contacts emphasizes interaction spheres, hybridization, technological transfer, or models of exchange as measures for constructing borders and defining societal membership. This presentation assesses how network relationships among complex and smaller-scale societies structured, and were restructured by, migration. Network models of social interaction and social identification are examined both prior to and following a migration process in a uniquely bellicose...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jill Muraski. Carl Blair.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the inaugural season of the Keweenaw Copper Research Collective (KCRC), excavations at the Delaware Copper Mine in the Keweenaw peninsula conclusively demonstrated pre-contact Indigenous mining in conglomerate rock formations. Archaeologists revealed the conglomerate formation along the Hogan copper vein, recovering banded and expedient hammerstones...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie Drane.

The John Chapman site is a mounded village that lies along the Apple River in northwestern Illinois. At approximately A.D. 1050, it appears that Mississippian migrants traveled to the area and interacted with the Late Woodland people already occupying the land. Previous excavations in the northern portion of the site revealed John Chapman people changing their ceramics to emulate Mississippian styles, while keeping their houses Late Woodland-like. Recent magnetometry surveys targeted central and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elspeth Geiger.

There has been a growing recognition within studies from across the US that the dynamics of contact-period interactions are not a homogenous process. Instead, the diversity inherent in these interactions points to the need for further research on local manifestations of these European and Native contact situations. In this paper, I analyze material recovered from the Summer Island Site off the coast of Garden Peninsula in MI. The Anishinaabeg communities within Northern Michigan were connected...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Walder. Marvin DeFoe. John Creese.

This is an abstract from the "Interactions across the North American Midcontinent" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Frog Bay site (47BA60) is an intact, multicomponent archaeological site on the south shore of Lake Superior in Red Cliff, Wisconsin. Similar sites with significant Middle and Late Archaic components associated with the Old Copper Complex are known across the region, but Frog Bay is especially important because it is located within...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jason King. Don Booth.

This is an abstract from the "The Village, the Region, and Beyond: Stuart Struever (1931–2022) and the Lower Illinois River Valley Research Program" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1953, Stuart McKee Struever (1931–2022) founded Archaeological Research Inc., the nonprofit organization that would develop into the Foundation for Illinois Archeology and ultimately the Center for American Archeology (CAA), as it is known today. As the institution...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Reed. Jonathan Libbon. Aidan McCarty. Benjamin Demchak. Erica Birkner.

Starting in 2015, archaeological survey for a large natural gas pipeline project investigated large portions of the Conotton Creek Drainage in Eastern Ohio. Prehistoric site clusters, identified during the project and previous investigations along Conotton Creek, provide an opportunity to investigate the prehistoric utilization of the landscape. Analysis of the dataset generated suggests there is patterning in the temporal and spatial distribution of prehistoric sites along Conotton Creek....

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Clark Wernecke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Previous publication has dealt with the discovery of incised stones at the Gault Archaeological Site and the artifacts of early Paleoindian age. To date, the project has identified 146 stones with incised lines and designs on them from provenienced collections, unprovenienced collections and collections in private hands. The artifacts are on both limestone...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jaelyn Roland.

George Milner points out in his 2015 work, "Population Decline and Culture Change in the American Midcontinent: Bridging the Prehistoric and Historic Divide", that reactions and changes by Native Americans during the Protohistoric period were highly localized, and that each tribe was affected differently through direct and indirect contacts with Europeans. The La Crosse locality was inhabited by the Oneota until c. 1625 when the area was abandoned for the Riceford Creek locality (in southeastern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey Spanbauer.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Colonial Archaeological Research in the American Midcontinent" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Built between 1754 and 1765 in southern Illinois, Fort de Chartres has been interpreted as a French settlement in historical and archaeological interpretations and reconstructions. This continues to be the case, despite a large British garrison and attached civilian workforce and traders who have been erased or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lara Noldner. Brennan Dolan. Janee Becker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A primary focus of cultural resource protection in Iowa is on prehistorically constructed burial mounds and other earthworks that are important to Native communities, past and present. This involves monitoring the condition of these earthworks and considering all potential impacts given their location and landowner maintenance strategies. This poster...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sara Pfannkuche. George Vassilatos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological objects are frequently donated by private citizens to professional organizations. These include the legacy collections of professional or avocational archaeologists, many of which date to the period when the profession of archaeology was being formalized, and objects found in the attic of a grandparent’s house. These collections range from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Melissa Torquato.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For over a century, the proliferation of archaeological excavations in the United States has generated a large amount of archaeological data. Much of this data is published in archaeological reports that are housed in state-run archives. These archives offer a wealth of information for scholars who explore research questions that require multi-site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only G. Logan Miller.

Prepared core and blade industries emerge in various times and places throughout the prehistory of North America. One of these is in association with the Hopewell phenomenon of the Eastern Woodlands. As such, they are often recognized as a Middle Woodland "index fossil" and a key materialized indication of Hopewell ceremonialism. However, few formal tests of their occurrence across space and time exist. Drawing on published reports, as well as an extensive review of the unpublished gray...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Brown. Michael Wiant.

This is an abstract from the "The Village, the Region, and Beyond: Stuart Struever (1931–2022) and the Lower Illinois River Valley Research Program" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. By 1972 the exposure of deeply buried occupation surfaces was a novelty in the Midwest. In Illinois, deep-site excavation experience was limited to the Modoc Rock Shelter exploration. Koster offered a new opportunity for a deep-site exposure, but one that raised...