<html>Taking Shelter: Exploring a 16<sup>th</sup> to 18<sup>th</sup> Century Chronology on the Northern Cumberland Plateau</html>
Author(s): Brandon Ritchison
Year: 2025
Summary
This is an abstract from the "Building a Better Chronology for Fifteenth–Eighteenth-Century Eastern North America through Radiocarbon Dating and Collaborative Research Agendas" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
In this paper we describe our initial chronological reexamination of a portion of the central Ohio River Valley during the transition from pre- to post-European contact and colonialism. The post-16th century diaspora of the Shawnee people figures prominently in historical, and archaeological, narratives of European and Early American/Native interaction throughout Eastern North America. However, these narratives have frequently focused on the removal of the Shawnee from their homelands, yet diasporic communities retain strong connections to their homelands. We investigate continuity in ancestral Shawnee engagements with their homelands during this time of diaspora and transition through the creation of new radiocarbon data from existing museum collections. We have targeted terminal indigenous occupations of open-air rockshelters in what is today the Daniel Boone National Forest as well as village sites known to bookend the Shawnee Diaspora, Hardin Village and Lower Shawneetown.
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Taking Shelter: Exploring a 16th to 18th Century Chronology on the Northern Cumberland Plateau. Brandon Ritchison. Presented at The 90th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2025 ( tDAR id: 509423)
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Abstract Id(s): 50435