Tracing the Relationships between the Lower Ohio and Central Mississippi River Valleys through the Bradley Off-Site Remediation Project

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Bradley Off-Site Remediation Project remediates deep tilling that occurred during a Natural Resources Conservation Service project at the late precontact Bradley site (3CT7) in Crittendon County, Arkansas. The Bradley Project supports collections-based research important to the Quapaw Nation by exploring connections between the Mississippian Angel phase (1000-1450 CE) in southwestern Indiana and late precontact phases of northeastern and central Arkansas. Ties between these regions have been readily recognized through the presence of artifacts typical of the Central Mississippi River Valley—Nodena points, Parkin Punctate pottery, head pots, and human effigy bottles—at late precontact Caborn-Welborn phase (1400-1700 CE) sites at the confluence of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers. However, Nodena points, Parkin Punctate pottery, and human effigy bottles have also been recovered at the nearby Mississippian Angel Mounds center. Relationships between the Angel and Caborn-Welborn phases are unclear and there is a large degree of overlap in the geographic and temporal extents, material culture, and architecture of the two phases. This poster presents preliminary results of the Bradley Project that reevaluate connections between Angel and Caborn-Welborn phases to better understand farther flung relationships with the Central Mississippi River Valley.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39793.0