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An Eden-Scottsbluff Burial in Northeastern Wisconsin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ronald J. Mason  and
Carol Irwin
Ronald J. Mason
Affiliation:
Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wis.
Carol Irwin
Affiliation:
Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wis.
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Abstract

In 1959 the Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin, discovered and excavated a cremation burial site near the base of the Door Peninsula in northeastern Wisconsin. Associated with the cremated remains of a human being were fire-cracked rocks, the fire-shattered fragments of large quartzite bifacial implements, and projectile points of Eden and Scottsbluff types. A possible Turin type of side-notched flint projectile point was also in association. The site is on the crest of a fossil beach equatable with the Main Algonquin lake stage of the Green Bay-Lake Michigan basins, thus establishing a maximum possible age for the cultural features. That the artifacts and burial are post-Lake Algonquin by not more than about 2500 years is indicated by typological comparisons of the artifacts with radiocarbon-dated assemblages in the High Plains, usually regarded as the center of the Eden-Scottsbluff complex. An age of 6500 to 4000 B.C. is suggested for the burial.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , July 1960 , pp. 43 - 57
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1960

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