Woodland and Late Precontact Interaction along the Saint Croix River Corridor in Minnesota and Wisconsin

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Interactions across the North American Midcontinent" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Saint Croix River is a major tributary to the Upper Mississippi River and forms a boundary between eastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. Flowing southward out of northwestern Wisconsin and entering the Mississippi near the Twin Cities, this 170-mile, north–south valley offered a passageway connecting communities of the North Woods and Western Great Lakes to the prairies of southern Minnesota and the Driftless Area of western Wisconsin. Drawing on data from recent surveys and excavation in the Saint Croix Valley by the Science Museum of Minnesota and University of Minnesota, this paper will examine evidence for interaction and mobility along the Saint Croix River and across environmental boundaries during Woodland and Late Precontact times.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Interactions across the North American Midcontinent

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Abstract Id(s): 32994