Climatic Change and the Mill Creek Culture of Iowa
Author(s): David A. Baerreis; Reid A. Bryson
Year: 1967
Summary
During the summer of 1963 archaeological excavations were conducted in a series of Mill Creek components in northwestern Iowa. The objectives of the research were to determine the extent to which culture change in this late prehistoric culture might be related to climatic factors and specifically apply a battery of techniques that might reveal the nature of climate changes during the time period under consideration. The specific investigation might properly be said to have been stimulated buy the Conference on the Climate of the Eleventh and Sixteenth Centuries held at Aspen, Colorado in 1962.
The Archives of Archaeology Series is a 29-volume set jointly published by the University of Wisconsin Press and the Society for American Archaeology on opaque microcards, a now obsolete format. The Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin—La Crosse has digitized the original opaque microcards and made the digital copies available through tDAR. More information on the process of digitizing the series can be found in Joseph Tiffany’s 2012 article entitled "Digitizing the Archives of Archaeology Series" in the SAA Archaeological Record (http://onlinedigeditions.com/publication/?i=113770).
Cite this Record
Climatic Change and the Mill Creek Culture of Iowa. David A. Baerreis, Reid A. Bryson. Archives of Archaeology ,No. 29. Washington D.C. and Madison, WI : Society for American Archaeology and the University of Wisconsin Press. 1967 ( tDAR id: 374998) ; doi:10.6067/XCV85Q4V9Z
Keywords
Culture
Big Sioux Focus
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Little Sioux Focus
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Waterman Focus
Material
Ceramic
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Chipped Stone
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Fauna
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Ground Stone
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Shell
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Wood
Site Name
Kimball site (13PM4)
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Phipps site (13CK21)
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Waterman Siding site (13OB3)
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Waterman site (13OB2)
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Wittrock site (13OB4)
Site Type
Artifact Scatter
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Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex
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Settlements
Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview
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Data Recovery / Excavation
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Environment Research
Geographic Keywords
Big Sioux River
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Iowa (State / Territory)
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Little Sioux River
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Mill Creek
Temporal Coverage
Calendar Date: 1000 to 1400 (Kimball site (13PM4))
Calendar Date: 900 to 1400 (Phipps site (13CK21))
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