Prairie Peninsula

Part of: Eastern Archaic Faunal Working Group

Archaic Faunal Datasets from the Prairie Peninsula Region

Site Name Keywords
Koster

Culture Keywords
Archaic • Early Archaic • Middle Archaic

Material Types
Fauna

Temporal Keywords
Middle Archaic • Early Archaic • Archaic

Geographic Keywords
Green County, Illinois • United States of America (Country) • Illinois (State / Territory) • Greene County (County) • North America (Continent) • USA (Country)

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Koster Site, IL (11GE4)
  • EARLY-MIDDLE ARCHAIC SUBSISTENCE STRATEGIES: CHANGES IN FAUNAL EXPLOITATION AT THE KOSTER SITE (1982)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah Neusius.

    This study uses faunal remains from Horizons 11-8A of the Koster Site, Greene County, Illinois, as the basis for examining subsistence change during the Early-Middle Archaic transition in the Midwest. Two related issues are considered. First, did significant changes in subsistence strategies occur? Second, what were the probable causes of subsistence change? Current evidence from the lower Illinois River Valley suggests that subsistence change is closely related to changes in settlement or...