The Case of the Caldwell Mound: A Woodland Period Mound in the Central Scioto River Valley

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-159
Author(s):  
Timothy D. Everhart
Keyword(s):  
River Valley ◽  
Woodland Period ◽  
Scioto River

scholarly journals First Records of Freckled Madtom (Noturus nocturnus) in Ohio, USA

2021 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-55
Author(s):  
Matthew A. Sarver ◽  
Chris O. Yoder
Keyword(s):  
River Valley ◽  
Ohio River ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
Ohio River Valley ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Eastern Kentucky ◽  
Scioto River ◽  
River Drainages

Two new Ohio localities for the Freckled Madtom (Noturus nocturnus Jordan and Gilbert, 1886) were recently discovered. These are the first, and currently only, Freckled Madtom collected in Ohio waters. A single individual was collected in the Scioto River in Scioto County by the Midwest Biodiversity Institute (MBI) and a previously misidentified specimen was collected in the Ohio River at the Hannibal Locks and Dam by the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO). The closest historical records are from the Little Sandy River and Big Sandy River drainages in eastern Kentucky. Other Ohio River collections have been made near the border of Kentucky and Indiana. The origins of the recent Ohio specimens are unknown; whether they emanate from other known populations or have been overlooked altogether is unclear.

scholarly journals The Bert W. Davis Site (41HP3) on the South Sulphur River in Hopkins County, Texas

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
Research Laboratory ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Single Component ◽  
Woodland Period ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
East Texas ◽  
The South ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
The University

The Bert W. Davis site in the South Sulphur River valley in East Texas was investigated by archaeologists from the University of Texas (UT) in 1919 and 1934, because an aboriginal cemetery had been exposed by plowing and later looting. The UT work consisted of a reconnaissance by J. E. Pearce in September 1919 and trenching by A. T. Jackson and crew in July 1934. A small assemblage of artifacts were recovered by UT during this work, but the collection (now at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at UT) had never been fully studied or the results of the work published. This was unfortunate because it appears that the Bert W. Davis site is virtually a single component Woodland period site that was occupied during the early part of the period, from ca. 100 B.C. to A.D. 300. Such sites are rare in the East Texas archaeological record. In this article, I discuss the analysis of the site and its distinctive artifact assemblage.

scholarly journals A Woodland Period Ceramic Assemblage from Rabbit Creek in the Sabine River Basin, Gregg County, Texas

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Single Component ◽  
Woodland Period ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Ceramic Assemblage ◽  
South Central ◽  
Archaeological Work ◽  
Ceramic Sherd ◽  
Sabine River

The GC-123 site was located and investigated by Buddy C. Jones during his years of archaeological work and surface collecting at numerous aboriginal sites in the mid-Sabine River basin in East Texas. The site is in south-central Gregg County, on Rabbit Creek (a northern-flowing tributary to the Sabine River), but only a few miles from the Sabine River valley. The site is notable for its ceramic sherd assemblage. Based on characteristics of Woodland period ceramics from the mid-Sabine River basin, including sites such as 41HS231 and 41RK562 (see Dockall and Fields 2011; Dockall et al. 2008), Hawkwind (41HS915), Folly (41RK26), Herman Ballew (41RK222), and Resch (41HS16, the GC-123 site appears to be a single component Woodland period occupation.

When Villages Do Not Form

2018 ◽  
pp. 73-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric E. Jones
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Late Woodland ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Woodland Period ◽  
Spatial Patterning ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Late Woodland Period ◽  
The North ◽  
Regional Settlement ◽  
River Valleys

From AD 800 to 1300, Piedmont Village Tradition (PVT) settlements were characterized by small numbers of loosely arranged households. In the Late Woodland period (after AD 1300) in the Dan, Eno, and Haw River valleys, these households coalesced into villages with planned layouts and cooperatively built structures. However, in the upper Yadkin River Valley, the pattern of loosely arranged households appears to have continued until out-migration from the valley in the 1600s. Through the examination of regional settlement ecology and site-level spatial patterning, this chapter explores how the environment and the sociopolitical and economic landscapes that resulted from the formation of PVT and Mississippian villages influenced the distinctive cultural patterns in the upper Yadkin River valley and the North Carolina peidmont.

Using CRM Survey Data: As Useless as Tennis Shoes on Armadillos? Examining Characteristics of Late Woodland and Late Prehistoric Sites in the Central Scioto Valley, Ohio

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flora Church
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Late Woodland ◽  
Woodland Period ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Late Prehistoric ◽  
Late Woodland Period ◽  
Pattern Change ◽  
Scioto River ◽  
Early Late

The use of CRM data for serious archaeological research is often ignored, given that most CRM surveys are not designed to address an archaeological research problem. Rather, they are in most cases expedient means of satisfying state and federal regulations. This article utilizes the results of CRM survey data from the central Scioto River drainage, Ohio, to address the problem of settlement pattern change from the Late Woodland period to the early Late Prehistoric. The study indicates that useful information is present for a number of basic environmental and archaeological variables, suggesting that similar use may be made of such data in other areas.

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