American Midwest (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeleine McLeester. Jesse Casana. Alison Anastasio.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Wisconsin has over 450 documented archaeological and historical Indigenous agricultural fields. Recorded primarily in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, less than 10% of these archaeological field sites remain today. This presentation describes our ongoing efforts to document and investigate...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Barbara Ladwig.

Volume III of the PRE-COLUMBIAN BURIAL RITES series analyzes prehistoric mortuary practice in the Midwest Region of North America. The database consists of 32,998 individuals from 1,304 burial sites and covers the period from approximately 9000 B. P. until A. D. 1500. The region by now comprised of the following states: Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. The provinces are analyzed individually by prehistoric period, then the analysis is followed by...