Contextualizing a Multicomponent Precontact Site among Lake Michigan’s Dunes in Wisconsin

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Archaeological investigations of the Kohler Dunes and Swales site (47SB0713) situated in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, identified overwhelming evidence of precontact occupation and land use by Archaic, Early Woodland, Middle Woodland, Late Woodland, and Oneota populations. This paper parses the more than 1,000 features, 75 cultural strata, and 11 structures comprising 48 distinct complexes of features identified during Phase III investigations of the site. Evidence of precontact anthropic activities is presented, contextualizing the intensification of repeated, seasonal occupation of the site. Finally, this paper characterizes and compares the various communities that occupied the site over several thousand years.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 51745