North America: Midwest (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabrielle Moran-O'Dell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On a 44-acre property located at USDA-NRCS Rose Lake Plant Materials Center (PMC) in Bath, Michigan, is a site that has a rich prehistoric background dating from the Late Woodland to the Late Archaic periods. The PMC has five known archaeological sites across the landscape that have shaped how the property is viewed. Based on pedestrian survey and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Friberg.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mississippian cultural phenomenon (1050–1450 CE) is marked by the near sudden emergence of population centers with regional networks along the Mississippi River and its tributary valleys in the late 11th and early 12th centuries. These societies seem to have declined as quickly as they emerged, beginning around the transition from the Medieval Climate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Nolan.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With an FY-22/23 Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) grant through the Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology (DHPA) the Applied Anthropology Laboratories (AAL) conducted a Phase Ia archaeological investigation of an upland ridge known as Wolfpen Ridge in Harrison-Crawford State Forest (HCSF) with the assistance of 18 student employees....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alia Moran.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The goal of this project is to document the Thai American immigrant experience, in order to empower Thai American teens today through participation in oral history collection and to educate the public about Thai American culture and language through a moving museum and learning curriculum. To this end, we have conducted ethnographic field work, literature...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Lucero.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. My intellectual journey with Tim Pauketat began in early 2005 when we met at a School for Advanced Research short seminar on the archaeology of ritual, memory, and materiality. The seminar was as success and led to a long intellectual friendship, a common theme of which was our mutual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan M. Alt.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The pace of urban development and destruction of sites around Cahokia prompted Tim Pauketat to develop and complete several large-scale excavation projects in what became known as the Richland complex. These excavations garnered large quantities of data while generating and refining...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlyn Antoniuk.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cahokia rose as a city around 1050 AD, and during the early years of its founding, Cahokian people, practices, and objects were sent to distant locations, often engaging with important landscapes. The Carson site in northwest Mississippi is one such location that shows clear signs of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only G. Logan Miller.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chipped stone bifaces with macroscopically visible glossy polish have been reported from Middle Woodland period sites across the Eastern Woodlands for decades. These are typically referred to as adzes or hoes but have also been classified as celts, gouges, and chisels. Yet few formal studies have been applied to examine the nature of this gloss and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Weiner.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While best known for his work at Cahokia and across the broader Mississippian World, Tim Pauketat has also made a catalytic and lasting impact on the archaeology of the U.S. Southwest and Chaco Canyon in particular. Pauketat has brought fresh, theoretically rich perspectives to Chaco...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Pierce.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Obsidian has been used for the production of lithics throughout the world dating as far back as the Paleolithic. Obsidian has even been noted at archaeological sites in the American Midwest for nearly two centuries, despite being over two thousand kilometers from the nearest source. In Missouri, only twenty obsidian artifacts have been documented in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Grace Conrad.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fieldnotes, hand drawn maps, personal communication, and some door-knocking: these are the pieces of the puzzle that allowed us to relocate a Fort Ancient site located near Cincinnati, Ohio. The Peach Orchard site sits atop a prominent hill, overlooking the more well-known Turpin site and the floodplain of the Little Miami River. It was first...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Geraci.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent volunteer investigations of a historic farmstead located in the lower Fox River Valley in northeastern Illinois have identified several new sites that have the potential to bring insight into the complicated history of the region. Analysis of the material culture shows that people have continually used this portion of the lower Fox River Valley...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Rybka.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Resistance to the construction of crude oil pipelines on Indigenous sovereign lands has become recognized locally and globally as a decolonial practice that also addresses the realities of climate change. Braided together closely with Indigenous-led resistance movements to petroleum infrastructure are the many communities, stakeholders, and accompanying...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Anfinson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2009, a constitutional amendment in Minnesota took effect authorizing millions of dollars for arts and cultural heritage programs. The State Archaeologist developed a Statewide Survey (SWS) program to further knowledge of site locations, cultural contexts, and property types. One of the first projects was to examine dating issues associated with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Watts Malouchos.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Timothy R. Pauketat has left an indelible mark on the field of archaeology, shaping theory and method and challenging archaeologists to investigate broad relationships between history and humanity. For Tim, archaeology should always be about big questions and big histories, about...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda Scott Cummings.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After a robust start that included dating bone collagen from 4 fish caught in 1939 and curated at MNHS, that larger project set out to investigate the accuracy of radiocarbon dates on various sample types in the state. Radiocarbon dates on fish ranged from 307-1225 BP, aligning with trophic levels. More dates on modern fish fall within this range. Modern...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tyler Ferree.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Otter Creek site is one of five Bold Counselor Oneota villages in the Central Illinois River Valley (CIRV). While it is one of two sites in the region with little to no evidence of cohabitation between nonlocal Oneota and local Mississippian groups, Otter Creek has received far fewer archaeological investigations than other Bold Counselor sites. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arvind Nair.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The curvilinear guilloche design on pottery necks is one of the key criteria that has served to define the Fort Ancient culture in the Great Miami Valley of southwest Ohio. Yet, surprisingly, no one has attempted to fully interpret its meaning. Here we take a holistic approach to understanding the symbolic meaning of this design, beginning with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Reamer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Generally identified through differences in soil color, texture, and composition, subterranean pit features are ubiquitous across archaeological sites in the Eastern Woodlands. Despite this ubiquity, most archaeologists have not attempted to statistically analyze features to understand their function in Indigenous foodways. Rather, published...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jacob Skousen.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of Timothy Pauketat’s many contributions to the field of archaeology is his incorporation of theory into his work. For Tim, theory is not a thing, but the way one sees and approaches the world and actively generates unique narratives and histories in correspondence with archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cayden Griffith.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We use spatial syntax to construct access map models for Monks Mound, the central and largest mound at Cahokia, during the end of the Stirling phase, as this was a time of great change with respect to both architecture and religious practice. We use access analysis to measure the Depth from the Exterior (DE), the Real Relative Asymmetry (RRA), and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Anderson.

This is an abstract from the "Method, Theory, and History in the Mississippian World: Papers in Honor of Timothy R. Pauketat" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For the last twenty years, whenever I taught advanced seminars in the Archaeology of the First Peoples of the Southeast, North American Precontact Archaeology, the Development of Complex Society, or Archaeological Theory, the work of Timothy R. Pauketat played a prominent role. Besides papers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bailey Raab.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent investigations at the Turpin site, a Fort Ancient village site dating from 1000-1300 CE in southwest Ohio, have sought to determine the extent of excavations conducted at the site by Harvard University’s Peabody Museum in 1885. In addition to shedding light on past disturbances of the site, these excavations have allowed for further research into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Ramey.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Kaskaskia, Illinois was founded in 1706 as a French Jesuit missionary, cradled between two major water sources: Kaskaskia and Mississippi Rivers. It was home to momentous events for the frontier, including the Revolutionary War. In 1818, it became the first capital of Illinois. Disaster struck in the 1880s, when the Mississippi River cut into the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Allyson Ropp.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Underwater archaeology sits at a critical juncture between spade and spade-free archaeology. While many underwater archaeological projects have utilized traditional excavation methods to illuminate our sunken history, recent efforts have turned toward spare-free, in situ and/or virtual reality methodologies to investigate these sites, work toward their...