The Later Prehistory of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania, and its Surroundings: An Overview

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard K. Means
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Late Prehistoric ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Community Patterns ◽  
Northeastern North America ◽  
Regional Trends ◽  
Village Life ◽  
Work Relief

Publicly-funded archaeological investigations, in the form of work relief programs in the 1930s and compliance excavations in the 1970s and 1990s, generated the data presented in this overview of Late Prehistoric sites in the vicinity of Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. A consideration of information on community patterns, subsistence, and chronology suggested that the adoption and cultivation of maize inspired social and cultural changes that led to the development of village life and participation in the Monongahela culture by the native inhabitants of the Meyersdale area. The rise of village life both anticipated and paralleled regional trends occurring throughout northeastern North America.

scholarly journals Radiocarbon re-dating of contact-era Iroquoian history in northeastern North America

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. eaav0280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sturt W. Manning ◽  
Jennifer Birch ◽  
Megan A. Conger ◽  
Michael W. Dee ◽  
Carol Griggs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
16Th Century ◽  
Late Prehistoric ◽  
Southern Ontario ◽  
Northeastern North America ◽  
European Trade

A time frame for late Iroquoian prehistory is firmly established on the basis of the presence/absence of European trade goods and other archeological indicators. However, independent dating evidence is lacking. We use 86 radiocarbon measurements to test and (re)define existing chronological understanding. Warminster, often associated with Cahiagué visited by S. de Champlain in 1615–1616 CE, yields a compatible radiocarbon-based age. However, a well-known late prehistoric site sequence in southern Ontario, Draper-Spang-Mantle, usually dated ~1450–1550, yields much later radiocarbon-based dates of ~1530–1615. The revised time frame dramatically rewrites 16th-century contact-era history in this region. Key processes of violent conflict, community coalescence, and the introduction of European goods all happened much later and more rapidly than previously assumed. Our results suggest the need to reconsider current understandings of contact-era dynamics across northeastern North America.

FABRIC OF THE LITHOSPHERE IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiran Li ◽  
◽  
Vadim Levin ◽  
Zhenxin Xie
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Northeastern North America

Early Maize in Northeastern North America: A Comment on Emerson and Colleagues

2021 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 425-427
Author(s):  
John P. Hart ◽  
William A. Lovis ◽  
M. Anne Katzenberg
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Human Bone ◽  
Northeastern North America ◽  
Isotopic Evidence ◽  
St Lawrence River

Emerson and colleagues (2020) provide new isotopic evidence on directly dated human bone from the Greater Cahokia region. They conclude that maize was not adopted in the region prior to AD 900. Placing this result within the larger context of maize histories in northeastern North America, they suggest that evidence from the lower Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River valley for earlier maize is “enigmatic” and “perplexing.” Here, we review that evidence, accumulated over the course of several decades, and question why Emerson and colleagues felt the need to offer opinions on that evidence without providing any new contradictory empirical evidence for the region.

Collective Burial in Late Prehistoric Virginia: Excavation and Analysis of the Rapidan Mound

2003 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary H. Dunham ◽  
Debra L. Gold ◽  
Jeffrey L. Hantman
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Late Prehistoric ◽  
Mortuary Ritual ◽  
New Information ◽  
Virginia Piedmont ◽  
Burial Mounds ◽  
Secondary Burial ◽  
Lines Of Evidence

Recent excavation and analysis of the remaining section of the endangered Rapidan Mound site (44OR1) in the central Virginia Piedmont provide new insights into a unique complex of burial mounds in the Virginia interior. Known since Thomas Jefferson's eighteenth-century description, the mounds are both earth and stone and accretional earthen mounds. Thirteen are recorded, all dating to the late prehistoric and early contact era (ca. A.D. 900-1700). Typically containing few artifacts, the accretional mounds are unusual in North America in the numbers of individuals interred, more than one thousand in at least two cases, and in the nature of the secondary, collective burial ritual that built up the mounds over centuries. Following a review of the characteristics of the mound complex, we focus on the Rapidan Mound and the analysis of the collective, secondary burial features in the mound. Precise provenience information and bioarchaeological analyses of two large and intact collective burial features provide new information on health and diet, and several lines of evidence for demographic reconstruction. Finally, we discuss the mortuary ritual conducted at the mounds within the cultural and historical context of the region.

Establishing Alpine Research Priorities in Northeastern North America

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 559 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Capers ◽  
Kenneth D. Kimball ◽  
Kent P. McFarland ◽  
Michael T. Jones ◽  
Andrea H. Lloyd ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Northeastern North America ◽  
Alpine Research
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