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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"American Bottom"”.
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Radiocarbon reservoir effects in the American bottom flood plain of the Mississippi River and adjacent uplands in southern Illinois
… Netherlands. If such large offsets exist in the American Bottom, then even limited consumption of aquatic resources could lead to offsets of radiocarbon dates of ~200-400 years in humans, dogs and other species. Identifying and assessing the magnitude of any RRE present via calculation of …
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The Settlement Patterns and Social Power of Cahokia's Hinterland Households
Recent archaeological fieldwork in the American Bottom has yielded a large amount of new data on the prehistoric farmsteads that surrounded the mound centers there. These data are synthesized here in a settlement study of building, household, and village organization. During late prehistory (A.D. …
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Creating the Cahokian Community: the Power of Place in Early Mississippian Sociopolitical Dynamics
… in the creation of the Cahokia polity in the American Bottom region of southwestern Illinois around A.D. 1050. In this study, I employ a multi-scalar perspective that includes detailed analyses of material culture, architecture, and spatial organization at five sites located in the American …
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A demographic and dietary history of ancient dogs in the Americas using ancient DNA
… ancient dogs were compared to modern and ancient American dogs to model dog demography and compare populations to identify shared haplotypes. This study identified multiple founding haplotypes, and suggested that dogs arrived to the Americas after the initial human migration. The majority of …
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The Spoon Toe Site (11MG179): Middle Woodland gardening in the lower Illinois River Valley
… sites in southern Illinois and the American Bottom to educe regional variation in plant use patterns. This is followed by a discussion of the mobility issues regarding horticultural people. Ethnographic analogy is utilized to formulate a model of what the archaeological sites of …
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Segmented and ascendant chiefdom polity as viewed from the Divers site
… polity over small rural villages in the southern American Bottom. Currently two models, which I call the Segmented and Ascendant Chiefdoms, respectively, provide contrasting explanations of the nature and amount of Cahokia control over rural villages. I examine the fit of these models against …
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Transforming material relationships: 13th century revitalization of Cahokian religious-politics
… within the historical trajectories of the North American mid-continent and southeast. The 11th century emergence of this multi-ethnic, multi-vocal metropolis appears to have been deeply entangled within a social-religious movement that spread rapidly throughout the region. By A.D. 1100, however, …
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An Archaeological Model of the Construction of Monks Mound and Implications for the Development of the Cahokian Society (800 - 1400 A.D.)
This dissertation presents a model for the development of Cahokian society through the lens of monumental construction. Previous models of Cahokian society have emphasized the accumulation of individual power and domination of the many by a few. Using analogies from the ethnography and ethnohistory …