The Range Site: Archaic Through Late Woodland Occupations. John E. Kelly, Andrew C. Fortier, Steven J. Ozuk, and Joyce A. Williams, with contributions by Lucretia Kelly, Sissel Johannessen, Paula Cross, and George Milner. FAI-270 Reports Vol. 16. American Bottom Archaeology, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1987. xxx + 455 pp., tables, figures, plates, references. $23.95 (paper).

1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 445-445
Author(s):  
Charles W. Markman
Keyword(s):  
Late Woodland ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
American Bottom

Mississippian Origins as Viewed from the Shiloh Indian Mound Group, Western Tennessee

2020 ◽  
pp. 303-313
Author(s):  
David G. Anderson ◽  
Thaddeus G. Bissett ◽  
John E. Cornelison
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
Late Woodland ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Tl Dating ◽  
American Bottom ◽  
Prior Use ◽  
Construction Activity

The Shiloh Indian Mound Group has produced a number of artifacts that appear to derive from the American Bottom area. Radiocarbon and TL dating indicates the site was occupied from the late tenth through early 14th centuries AD, with construction activity at Mound A occurring between approximately AD 1100 and 1340, with major stages erected during the early and mid-13th century. The Shiloh center was thus emerging during Cahokia’s Stirling phase, from ca. AD 1100–1200, and reached its peak during the subsequent Morehead Phase, from AD 1200–1300. Shiloh, like Cahokia itself, was abandoned sometime around AD 1300. Shiloh’s Mississippian center apparently emerged amid local Late Woodland peoples who apparently made little prior use of the location, suggesting an amalgamation of differing populations or social groups, much as Cahokia itself was likely formed.

Collapse of Crucial Resources and Culture Change: A Model for the Woodland to Oneota Transformation in the Upper Midwest

2006 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
James L. Theler ◽  
Robert F. Boszhardt
Keyword(s):  
Community Organization ◽  
Late Woodland ◽  
Upper Midwest ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
American Bottom ◽  
Driftless Area ◽  
Middle Mississippian ◽  
Effigy Mound ◽  
Northward Expansion ◽  
Hunting Technology

The Driftless Area of the Upper Midwestern United States offers a case study for the transition from hunter-gatherer (Late Woodland Effigy Mound) to agricultural (Oneota) societies between ca. A.D. 950 and 1150, a period that coincided with northward expansion of Middle Mississippian cultures from the American Bottom. Previous studies have not adequately explained the regional disappearance of Effigy Mound cultures, the appearance of Oneota cultures, or the cultural changes that occurred during this period. Our analysis considers ecological (deer and firewood) and cultural (population packing, community organization, hunting technology, and warfare) factors to develop a testable model applicable to broader regions. We propose that increasing Late Woodland populations reached the region's “packing threshold,” disrupting a flexible seasonal round based on residential mobility and triggering shortages of two essential resources, white-tailed deer and firewood, which in turn led Late Woodland groups to abandon vast portions of the Driftless Area. The intrusion of Middle Mississippian peoples from the south created additional disruption and conflict. Remnant Woodland and Mississippian peoples amalgamated briefly in the region's first villages, which were palisaded. After A.D. 1150, Oneota cultures emerged, reoccupying specific localities in clustered settlements.

The East St. Louis Quarry Site Cemetery (ll-S-468). George R. Milner, American Bottom Archaeology FAI-270 Site Reports Vol. 1, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1983. x + 182 pp., illus., references, maps, appendices. $8.95 (paper). - The Florence Street Site (ll-S-458).. Thomas E. Emerson, George R. Milner and Douglas K. Jackson. American Bottom Archaeology FAI-270 Site Reports Vol. 2, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1983. xii + 353 pp., illus., references, appendices, map. $8.95 (paper). - The Missouri Pacific #2 Site (ll-S-46). Dale L. McElrath and Andrew C. Fortier. American Bottom Archaeology FAI-270 Site Reports Vol. 3, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1983. xii + 255 pp., illus., references, appendices, map. $8.95 (paper). - The Turner and DeMange Sites (ll-S-50 and 11-S- 447). George R. Milner, American Bottom Archaeology FAI-270 Site Reports Vol. 4, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1983. xi + 243 pp., illus., references, appendices. $10.95 (paper). - The Mund Site (ll-S-435). Andrew C. Fortier, Fred A. Finney and Richard B. Lacampagne. American Bottom Archaeology FAI-270 Site Reports Vol. 5, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1983. xii + 431 pp., figures, tables, appendices, references, map. $13.95 (paper). - The BBB Motor Site (ll-Ms-595). Thomas E. Emerson and Douglas K. Jackson. American Bottom Archaeology FAI-270 Site Reports Vol. 6, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1984. ix + 413 pp., figures, tables, appendices, references. $ 13.95 (paper). - American Bottom Archaeology: A Summary of the FAI- 270 Project. Charles J. Bareis and James W. Porter, editors. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1984. xviii + 286 pp., plates, figures, tables, appendices, references. $22.50 (cloth).

1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 430-432
Author(s):  
Richard W. Jefferies
Keyword(s):  
University Of Illinois ◽  
American Bottom

New Evidence in the Upper Mississippi Valley for Premississippian Cultural Interaction with the American Bottom

2008 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Stoltman ◽  
Danielle M. Benden ◽  
Robert F. Boszhardt
Keyword(s):  
Late Woodland ◽  
Woodland Period ◽  
Petrographic Analysis ◽  
Mississippi Valley ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
American Bottom ◽  
Late Woodland Period ◽  
Mississippian Period ◽  
Lithic Assemblage ◽  
New Evidence

The recovery of anomalous (red-slipped, shell/grog/sandstone-tempered) pottery from three sites in the Upper Mississippi Valley (UMV) prompted a petrographic analysis of thin sections of 21 vessels from these sites. The goal was to evaluate their possible derivation from the American Bottom, the nearest locality where such pottery commonly occurs. Among the 12 UMV vessels tempered with shell (nine red slipped), ten were determined, based on comparisons to thin sections of stylistically similar pottery from the American Bottom, to have essentially identical physical compositions. Additionally, four vessels suspected of being limestone-tempered were determined to have been tempered with a type of sandstone that out-crops only farther south in Illinois and Iowa. Of the three UMV sites, only the Fisher Mounds Site Complex (FMSC) produced the presumed exotic pottery in undisturbed, dated contexts. The petrographic evidence is consistent with the C-14 age and lithic assemblage at FMSC in suggesting an actual influx of people from the American Bottom into the UMV. The time of this influx, the Edelhardt phase of the Emergent Mississippian/Terminal Late Woodland period, ca. cal A.D. 1000-1050, is earlier than previously believed, i.e., precedes the main Mississippian period in the American Bottom.

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