Chief Archaeologist at the Illinois Department of Transportation and Research Associate at Illinois State Archaeological Survey and Illinois State Museum
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... into the flood-Saint Louis Chester Alton K as kask ia R iv er C a hok ia C ree k W o od R iv ... more ... into the flood-Saint Louis Chester Alton K as kask ia R iv er C a hok ia C ree k W o od R iv er M i ss iss ipp i R ive r Dupo I lli ... 322 Dale L. McElrath, Andrew C. Fortier, Brad Koldehoff, andThomas E. Emerson plain regime of the Mississippi River trench and the adjacent uplands. ...
A B S T R A C T Innovations in tool technology during the early Holocene in the North American mi... more A B S T R A C T Innovations in tool technology during the early Holocene in the North American midcontinent are related to construction of a new human niche focusing on woodlands, water travel, and improved aquatic and terrestrial resources. Production and use of early Holocene Dalton adzes and other tools from sites and caches exemplify these adaptations. Subsistence remains are not abundant, but microwear and technological analyses of flaked stone tools can be used to infer production of dugout canoes and document trends that reflect new sustainable and resilient lifeways and complex social networks. The functions of tools from Dalton sites and tool caches in Illinois and Arkansas are contrasted with typical Clovis tools. Technological and microwear analyses reveals that the Dalton adze was made and used for heavy-duty woodworking—felling trees and likely for manufacturing dugout canoes. Dalton toolkits are highly formalized, consisting of adzes, scrapers, awls, and points used both as projectiles and knives. Large distinctive Sloan points were exchanged within emerging Dalton social networks. Dalton toolkits, often considered late PaleoIndian, are part of an Early Archaic horizon. New tools helped Dalton groups to create new niches as they settled into new woodland and riverine landscapes and laid the foundation for later Archaic and Woodland socioeconomic systems.
Variation in the political economic organization of Mississippian
polities has long been recogniz... more Variation in the political economic organization of Mississippian polities has long been recognized. There have been few studies, however, that have examined these differences in any detail. We offer a comparison between Moundville and Cahokia, two of the largest and most complex Mississippian polities in the greater Southeast. Well-demarcated differences in settlement patterns, community patterns, and craft production reveal important organizational dissimilarities between Moundville and Cahokia during the early Mississippian period. By highlighting these differences we hope to problematize the overuse of societal types as a means of analyzing and comparing Mississippian polities.
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polities has long been recognized. There have been few studies, however, that have examined these differences in any detail. We offer a comparison between Moundville and Cahokia, two of the largest and most complex Mississippian polities in the greater Southeast. Well-demarcated differences in settlement patterns, community patterns, and craft production reveal important organizational dissimilarities between Moundville and Cahokia during the early Mississippian period. By highlighting these differences we hope to problematize the overuse of societal types as a means of analyzing and comparing Mississippian polities.