ROI008, An Archaeological Survey of the Newport Army Ammunition Plant, Vermillion County, Indiana; Predicting the Archaeological Potential of an Upland Forest-Prarie Edge in West Central Indiana

Summary

This is the tDAR Project page that represents Reports of Investigation 008 from the Applied Anthropology Laboratories, Ball State University. A survey of the Newport Army Ammunition Plant, utilizing a 10.8 percent stratified sample, revealed 144 sites for the plant property and predicted between 1200 and 1500 others. Of the 144 sites found, only ten appeared to have any potential for meeting National Register criteria for significance. Prior to the survey, a predictive model of land use representing activities potentially carried out by aboriginal inhabitants of the area was devised, taking into consideration previous studies in prairie and upland forest environments in other parts of the Midwestern U.S.A. and also the potential resources of the prairie-forest ecotone in the NAAP area. The survey data was used to test hypotheses concerning site distribution and the artifact assemblages of sites in the area derived from that model. The results of the survey suggested that prehistoric usage of prairie-forest ecotone areas was more complex than can be predicted using a simple dispersed hunting pattern model.

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Cite this Record

ROI008, An Archaeological Survey of the Newport Army Ammunition Plant, Vermillion County, Indiana; Predicting the Archaeological Potential of an Upland Forest-Prarie Edge in West Central Indiana. ( tDAR id: 462989) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8462989

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Keywords

Culture
Adena • Albee • Allison LaMotte • Bluegrass • Dalton • Early Archaic • Early Woodland • French Lick Phase • Glacial Kame • Havana • Historic • Jerger Phase • KIRK • Late Archaic • Late Paleoindian • Late Woodland • Lost Lake • Mann • Maple Creek Phase • McCorkle • Middle Archaic • Middle Woodland • Mississippian • Newtown • PaleoIndian • QUAD • Red Ocher • Riverton • Saint Albans • Scioto • Terminal Late Archaic • THEBES • Unidentified Prehistoric Show More

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Glass • Metal • Shell • Wood

Site Name
12Ve107 • 12Ve108 • 12Ve109 • 12Ve110 • 12Ve111 • 12Ve112 • 12Ve113 • 12Ve114 • 12Ve115 • 12Ve116 • 12Ve117 • 12Ve118 • 12Ve119 • 12Ve120 • 12Ve121 • 12Ve122 • 12Ve123 • 12Ve124 • 12Ve125 • 12Ve126 • 12Ve127 • 12Ve129 • 12Ve130 • 12Ve131 • 12Ve132 • 12Ve133 • 12Ve135 • 12Ve136 • 12Ve137 • 12Ve138 • 12Ve139 • 12Ve140 • 12Ve141 • 12Ve142 • 12Ve143 • 12Ve144 • 12Ve146 • 12Ve147 • 12Ve148 • 12Ve149 • 12Ve150 • 12Ve151 • 12Ve152 • 12Ve153 • 12Ve154 • 12Ve155 • 12Ve156 • 12Ve158 • 12Ve159 • 12Ve160 • 12Ve161 • 12Ve162 • 12Ve163 • 12Ve164 • 12Ve165 • 12Ve166 • 12Ve167 • 12Ve168 • 12Ve169 • 12Ve170 • 12Ve171 • 12Ve172 • 12Ve173 • 12Ve174 • 12Ve175 • 12Ve177 • 12Ve178 • 12Ve179 • 12Ve180 • 12Ve181 • 12Ve182 • 12Ve183 • 12Ve184 • 12Ve185 • 12Ve186 • 12Ve187 • 12Ve188 • 12Ve189 • 12Ve190 • 12Ve191 • 12Ve192 • 12Ve193 • 12Ve194 • 12Ve195 • 12Ve196 • 12Ve197 • 12Ve198 • 12Ve199 • 12Ve200 • 12Ve201 • 12Ve202 • 12Ve203 • 12Ve204 • 12Ve205 • 12Ve206 • 12Ve207 • 12Ve215 • 12Ve216 • 12Ve217 • 12Ve218 • 12Ve219 • 12Ve220 • 12Ve221 • 12Ve222 • 12Ve223 • 12Ve224 • 12Ve225 • 12Ve226 • 12Ve227 • 12Ve228 • 12Ve229 • 12Ve230 • 12Ve231 • 12Ve232 • 12Ve233 • 12Ve234 • 12Ve235 • 12Ve236 • 12Ve237 • 12Ve238 • 12Ve239 • 12Ve240 • 12Ve241 • 12Ve242 • 12Ve244 • 12Ve245 • 12Ve246 • 12Ve247 • 12Ve248 • 12Ve249 • 12Ve250 • 12Ve251 • 12Ve252 • 12Ve253 • 12Ve254 • 12Ve255 • 12Ve256 • 12Ve257 • 12Ve258 • 12Ve259 • 12Ve260 • 12Ve261 • 12Ve262 • 12Ve263 Show More

Site Type
Artifact Scatter • Building Substructure • Encampment • House • Isolated Artifact

Investigation Types
Reconnaissance / Survey • Systematic Survey

Geographic Keywords
Indiana • Vermillion County

Spatial Coverage

min long: -87.532; min lat: 39.608 ; max long: -87.387; max lat: 40.146 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Kevin Nolan; Applied Anthropology Laboratories, Ball State University

Contributor(s): Donald R. Cochran; William R. Wepler

Principal Investigator(s): Ronald Hicks

Sponsor(s): Uniroyal, Inc.

Repository(s): Applied Anthropology Laboratories, Ball State University

Prepared By(s): Archaeological Resources Management Service, Ball State University

Submitted To(s): Uniroyal, Inc.

Record Identifiers

Reports of Investigation(s): 008

Contract #(s): 2-04751

Source Collections

Ball State University Applied Anthropology Laboratories

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Documents

ROI008, An Archaeological Survey of the Newport Army Ammunition Plant, Vermillion County, Indiana: Predicting the Archaeological Potential of an Upland Forest-Prairie Edge in West Central Indiana (1982)