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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Late Woodland"”.
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Mazique (22AD502): Late Woodland Village or Vacant Ceremonial Center?
… supporting a permanent residential population. Late Woodland sites such as Mazique have much to add to the archaeological record of the Lower Mississippi Valley. The Coles Creek people were a complex society who practiced redistributive buffering without intensive agriculture and built civic …
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Investigation of Late Woodland cultural changes at the Bridgeport site (1JA574), Alabama
This thesis examines Late Woodland cultural changes in northeast Alabama at the Bridgeport site, 1JA574, specifically the switch from ceramic stylistic homogeneity and social consensus in the Middle Woodland (A.D. 100-400/500) to increased ceramic stylistic heterogeneity and social differentiation …
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The Use of Space at the Late Woodland Shady Grove Site (22-Qu-525)
Very little previous work has been done at the Late Woodland Shady Grove site. This thesis will examine and reconfirm some of the previous conclusions about this site's placement within the temporal framework of the Northern Yazoo Basin. The Late Woodland and Mississippian occupations of the site …
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Decorated Ceramics At Cypress Citadel (11Js76): Patterning At A Late Woodland Site In Southern Illinois
The Cypress Citadel (11js76) is a late Woodland hill top site located in southern Illinois in the southwest portion of Johnson County, near the community of Cypress. Previous research has documented it as a Lewis phase site within the late Woodland period. The Lewis phase is set apart from late …
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Exploring a Biocultural Model of Resiliency in the lower Illinois River Valley from Middle to Late Woodland Periods
… to accomplish these goals, the adult Middle and Late Woodland skeletons from the Elizabeth site in west central Illinois were examined for the nonspecific stress indicators of linear enamel hypoplasia, tibial periostosis, and changes to average stature. Both adult and non-adult Middle and Late …
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A Ceramic Vessel Function Analysis and Foodways Approach to the Late Woodland/Mississippian Interface in Kershaw County, South Carolina
<p>The Late Woodland/Mississippian interface in central South Carolina was a time of dynamic interaction between relatively egalitarian and socially ranked peoples. The goals of this thesis were to see how Late Woodland and Mississippian social settings are reflected in pre-Columbian foodways …
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Situating the Pot and Potter: Ceramic Production and Use at the Silvercreek Sites, Two Early-Late Woodland Sites in Elgin County, Ontario
… sites that date to the beginning of the early Late Woodland period. In order to understand the production and use of ceramic vessels at the sites, a wide range of ceramic attributes are recorded and analyzed. A second component of the research is to understand the settlement patterns at the …
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Identity in the Late Woodland Northeast: interpreting communities of practice from paste composition at the Thomas/Luckey and the Losey 3 sites
… Losey 3’s 14th-17th century occupations in the Late Woodland Northeast contain assemblages with incongruous regional pottery types; Kelso Corded and an assumed non-local Shenks Ferry. I argue the presence of Shenks Ferry vessels at these two sites indicates the movement of people who reproduced …
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Emerging identity and community in the Lamoine River Valley during the early Late Woodland period: Examining the Carter Creek site as a case study
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Households and Changing Use of Space at the Transitional Early Mississippian Austin Site
… along the transition from the Terminal Late Woodland to the Mississippian period. While Elizabeth Hunt’s (2017) masters thesis concluded that the ceramics at Austin emphasized a Late Woodland persistence, the architecture and use of space at the site had yet to be analyzed. This study …
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Austin (22TU549): Mississippian Emergence In the Northern Yazoo Basin
… Austin Site (22TU549) is a known transitional Late Woodland to early Mississippian village located in Tunica County, Mississippi. Compared with the cultural phases that have been developed in other regions the northern Yazoo Basin lacks a clearly defined “Emergent Mississippian” phase. This …
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Fishing, Farming, and Animal Husbandry in the Early and Middle Neolithic of the Middle Yellow River Valley, China
… at higher latitude in eastern North America in Late Woodland period. Second, fishing had remained very important in the Wei River Valley before and after millet agriculture and pig husbandry became the dominant mode of subsistence, suggesting a regional difference in subsistence strategies …
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Temper, Mounds, And Palisades: The Walford Site (22Su501) Of Sunflower County, Mississippi
… site is a multicomponent site with Archaic, Woodland and Mississippian components located in the northern Yazoo Basin of Mississippi. The site has been recorded by several surveys, and was subjected to salvage excavations from 2003–2007. This excavation confirmed multiple components …
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STABLE ISOTOPIC INSIGHTS INTO THE SUBSISTENCE PATTERNS OF PREHISTORIC DOGS (CANIS FAMILIARIS) AND THEIR HUMAN COUNTERPARTS IN NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA
… were chosen as the focus of this study because related research suggests that their diet tends to mimic human diet. Prehistoric dogs were scavengers, but they were also intentionally fed companions. The suggestion that dog diet in some way mimics human diet means that stable isotope ratios from …
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Organizational aspects of Mississippian settlement systems in western Kentucky
… settlement system developed from a local Late Woodland basis, in which site organization was highly redundant, into a system in which sites were increasingly differentiated. The chronological and organizational trends of this process have implications for the way in which chiefdoms are …
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A demographic and dietary history of ancient dogs in the Americas using ancient DNA
… and that dogs arrived to the Americas later in time. We also found that ancient dog demography mirrors ancient Native American demography in specific regions of North America, such as the Pacific Coast and Southeast. Finally, we assessed the diet in dogs from the American Bottom using …
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Exploring the occupational history of the Middle Ontario Iroquoian Dorchester Village site
… of the Dorchester Village site, a complex Late Woodland Middle Ontario Iroquoian archaeological village site, as a case study of intrasite seriation. Vessel attributes were coded and subject to correspondence analysis to seek plausible temporal sequences. The Brainerd Robinson coefficient …
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Creating the Cahokian Community: the Power of Place in Early Mississippian Sociopolitical Dynamics
… (A.D. 975–1100) which spans the Terminal Late Woodland Lindeman and Edelhardt phases (A.D. 1000–1050) and the early Mississippian Lohmann phase (A.D. 1050–1100). The mapping, geophysical survey, excavation, and material analyses for each of these sites combined with regional comparisons …
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Cultural Behaviors and Their Influence on the Proximal Femur: Comparisons of Postural Behavior, Occupation, and Subsistence-Settlement Between a Pre-Contact and Historic Sample
<p>Little is known archaeologically about the Late Woodland Schroeder Mounds mortuary group from west-central Illinois. As such, bioarchaeological data is at the forefront of archaeological problem-solving for not only the site, but the geographical area as well. Skeletal data such as proximal …
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Archaeobotanical Analyses of the Winterville Mounds Site (22ws500) and Other Southeastern Ceremonial Complexes
… Mounds (22WS500) and seventy- two other Late Woodland and Mississippian sites, from seven states, was conducted to identify their potential medicinal and ritual use of seventy-five botanicals based on reported ethnobotanical evidence. By classifying botanicals into four classes, modeled …
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