Kankakee Marsh (Other Keyword)
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From about 16,000 BCE to the early 20th century, the Kankakee Marsh was a vast wetland covering about a million acres in northern Indiana and Illinois. Today the marsh covers about one percent of its original area. After Removal Period, the marsh was famous among hunters for its abundant populations of fur bearing mammals and waterfowl. A regional analysis of the Kankakee Marsh is conducted to analyze the intersite variability of the faunal remains recovered. These sites date from the Archaic to...
Kankakee Marsh Lifeways, Phase III Data Recovery, Northwest Indiana (2016)
Site 12LA0091 represents a unique archaeological setting in northwest Indiana. Located south of Lake Michigan on a sandy dune remnant situated topographically above the historic Kankakee Marsh, this prehistoric site has yielded invaluable information in understanding regional prehistoric subsistence activities from the Late Archaic to Upper Mississippian periods. A recent Phase III data recovery effort has provided data that can help refine the prehistoric chronological framework for northwest...