Recently added articles from Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, MCJA:
A Note from the Editor
Oct 01, 2008; ... It is amazing how time flies. As I write this final note a couple weeks in advance of turning the editorship of the journal over to the capable hands of Mark Schurr, I find myself surprised at how quickly my tenure as Editor of the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology had flown by. I do believe ...
Plants and Technology: Introductory Comments
Oct 01, 2008; ... With a single exception, the paleoethnobotany papers presented as a group in this issue of the MCJA emerged from a symposium, "Plants and Tech- nology," organized by Mary Simon and Katie Parker as part of the 2006 Midwest Archaeological Conference in Champaign-Urbana. In consider- ing possible ...
Understanding the Carbonization and Preservation of Sunflower and Sumpweed Remains
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract In this paper, I describe important chemical and physical properties of carbonized sunflower and sumpweed achenes and examine how those properties influence both the preservation and interpretation of these remains. Specifically, I designed a series of laboratory experiments to ...
An Analysis of Textile Fragments from the Janey B. Goode Site
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract Excavations at the Janey B.Goode site (11S1232), located in the American Bottom region of Illinois, yielded carbonized textile remains from two pit features dating to the Terminal Late Woodland period and from one pit feature dating to the Mississippian period. The remains comprise both ...
The Kerr Canyon Textile and the Importance of Packrats (Neotoma floridana) in the Eastern Woodlands
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract In 1 974 a section of uncarbonized textile made from rattlesnake master leaves (Eryngium yuccifolium Michx.) was recovered from an eastem woodrat (Neotoma floridana) midden in a sandstone rocksheiter along Kerr Canyon in the Shawnee Hills of southern Illinois. Even though this important ...
Coloration and Fabric Structure of Selected Polychrome Textiles from the Seip Mound Group
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract Selected yellow and brown colored textiles from the Hopewellian Seip Mound group were examined visually and photographed. In some cases, the yarns are colorant saturated and the colored patterns are nearly identical on both sides of the textiles. In addition to the use of several ...
Plants and Technology: Current and Future Directions
Oct 01, 2008; ... Archaeologists in the Midcontinent have long been interested in the relationships between people and plants. Research on this subject is well represented in the ethnobotany papers frequently given at the annual meetings of the Midwest Archaeological Conference and published in MCJA. In fart, ...
A Note from the Editor
Apr 01, 2008; ... It is finally a beautiful spring day and I am thinking of upcoming research plans and fieldwork beginning in just a couple weeks. The papers in this issue emerge from several different kinds of field and collections research, once again illustrating the variety of interesting and innovative ...
Middle Woodland Ceramic Exchange in the Lower Illinois Valley
Apr 01, 2008; ... Abstract This paper examines the exchange of Middle Woodland ceramics within the Havana region of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere. Ceramics from six lower Illinois Valley sites and samples of surrounding days are examined using neutron activation analysis. Statistical evaluation of the elemental ...
Raw Material Utilization in Carroll County, Indiana: A Small-scale Analysis of Diachronic Patterns in the Usage of Attica, Kenneth, and Wyandotte Cherts
Apr 01, 2008; ... Abstract This paper presents an analysis of a small sample (n = 360) of diagnostic hafted bifaces from southern Carroll County, Indiana. Placed within a regional framework and rooted in hunter-gatherer theory, the results of this analysis offer some important insights into diachronic patterns of ...
Early Woodland Plain-Surface Pottery from the Mid-Ohio Valley: Two Recently Excavated Assemblages from Ohio and Kentucky
Apr 01, 2008; ... Abstract Recent cultural resource management investigations at the Buckeye Ordnance #2 site in Lawrence County, Ohio, and the M.B. Green site in Boone County, Kentucky, have afforded an opportunity for detailed study of two directly dated Early Woodland ceramic assemblages from the Mid-Ohio ...
Errata Volume 32, Issue 2
Apr 01, 2008; ... The Keener and Nye article tided "Early Woodland Upland Encampments of Central Ohio" contained an error in Table 9 (p. 274) involving one of the reported radiocarbon dates. The authors note that the ...
The Taber Well Site (33HO611): A Middle Woodland Habitation and Surplus Lithic Production Site in the Hocking Valley, Southeastern Ohio
Apr 01, 2008; ... Abstract From ca. 1500 B.C. through A.D. 300, small indigenous communities in southeastern Ohio incrementally increased their population size, adopted a more sedentary lifeway within recognized territories, formalized the burial of select individuals in mounds, and supplemented their hunting and ...
A Note from the Editor
Oct 01, 2007; ... This is a particularly interesting issue of MCJA for several reasons. In this issue are four very engaging articles that reflect the diversity and excellence of research in the mid-continent. These include articles dealing with as diverse topics as the contact period (Mazrim and Esary), Hopewell ...
Rethinking the Dawn of History: The Schedule, Signature, and Agency of European Goods in Protohistoric Illinois
Oct 01, 2007; ... Abstract Interpretations of the archaeological record of the seventeenth century Illinois Country have been temporally compressed, and the richly stratified archival, ethnographic, and material records from that era have not been applied to the archaeological information at hand. A muddied view ...
A Multi-regional Analysis of AMS and Radiometric Dates from Carbonized Food Residues
Oct 01, 2007; ... Abstract Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) is increasingly employed to date encrusted carbonized food residues on prehistoric pottery sherds, particularly in regions where other datable material is absent or scarce, or where such materials lack good association with objects of chronological ...
Early Woodland Upland Encampments of Central Ohio
Oct 01, 2007; ... Abstract Most published studies of the Early Woodland period (1000 B.C.-200 B.C.) in Ohio have traditionally focused on the mortuary/ceremonial aspects (e.g. mounds) of the latter half of this time period. Less energy, however, has been devoted to nonmortuary sites, such as those that appear in ...
A Quantitative Analysis of Skill and Efficiency: Hopewell Blade Production at the Turner Workshop, Hamilton County, Ohio
Oct 01, 2007; ... Abstract We describe and analyze blade production at a small site near the Turner Earthworks, Hamilton County, Ohio. The Turner Workshop provides perhaps the largest sample of Ohio Hopewell (ca. A.D. 50350) blades and blade-cores recovered from a single site to date. We focus on describing the ...