Recently added articles from Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, MCJA:
A Note from the Editor
Apr 01, 2008; Brashler, Janet G ... 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; Fie, Shannon M ... 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; Moore, Christopher R ... 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; Purtill, Matthew P ... 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; Anonymous ... 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; Peoples, Nicole; Abrams, Elliot M; Freter, AnnCorinne; Jokisch, Brad; Patton, Paul E ... 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 ...