Contextualizing Mid–Late Archaic Period Copper Complex Sites of the Western Great Lakes

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 Frog Bay site (47BA60) is an intact, multicomponent archaeological site on the south shore of Lake Superior in Red Cliff, Wisconsin. Similar sites with significant Middle and Late Archaic components associated with the Old Copper Complex are known across the region, but Frog Bay is especially important because it is located within Frog Bay Tribal National Park, owned and managed by the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and it is being investigated in a collaborative, THPO-directed project. This paper contextualizes the Frog Bay site with similar shoreline and island sites in the Lake Superior basin, stretching from Grand Island, Michigan, to the east, westward to Thunder Bay, and along the north shore to Michipicoten, Ontario. The comparison both highlights unique aspects of Frog Bay and places it within a wider regional landscape of interaction.

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): 32452