Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-cjp7w Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-16T14:21:27.296Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Culture Sequence at the Old Fort, Saline County, Missouri

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

W. Raymond Wood
W. Raymond Wood*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The Old Fort (23SA104), an earthwork enclosure and mound complex on a high ridge near the Missouri River in central Missouri, has long been considered a Middle Woodland or Hopewell construction. Excavations in 1970 cross-trenched prehistoric ditches and embankments on the north end of the enclosure. A well-developed soil profile containing predominantly Middle Woodland pottery was exposed, into which aboriginal ditches had been cut. Oneota pottery lay on the floors of these ditches, embedded in a thin laminated horizon of alluvium. Oneota and Middle Woodland pottery are mixed in ditch fills. Field data, although limited, thus support the identification of the enclosure as Oneota, aboriginally constructed on a Middle Woodland habitation site.

Type
Reports
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , January 1973 , pp. 101 - 111
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1973

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Anonymous 1881 History of Saline County. Missouri Historical Company, St. Louis.Google Scholar
Bray, R. T. 1961 The Missouri Indian tribe in archaeologyand history. Missouri Historical Review 55:213–225.Google Scholar
Broadhead, G. C. 1880 Prehistoric evidences in Missouri. SmithsonianInstitution, Annual Report for 1879, pp.350–359.Google Scholar
Chapman, C. H. 1947 A preliminary survey of Missouri archaeology,Part I. Missouri Archaeologist 10, Pt. I.Google Scholar
Chapman, C. H., and Chapman, Eleanor 1964 Indians and archaeology of Missouri. Missouri Handbook 6.Google Scholar
Gerard, Fowke 1910 Antiquities of central and southeasternMissouri. Bureau of American Ethnology,Bulletin 37.Google Scholar
Henning, D. R. 1970 Development and interrelationships ofOneota culture in the lower Missouri Rivervalley. Missouri Archaeologist 32.Google Scholar
Leaf, A. G. 1972 Experiments in soil chemistry. SoutheasternArchaeological Conference Bulletin. In press.Google Scholar
McKinney, J. J. 1954 Hopewell sites in the Big Bend area ofcentral Missouri. Missouri Archaeologist 16:7–54.Google Scholar
Olaf, Prufer 1964 The Hopewell complex of Ohio. In Hopewellianstudies, edited by Caldwell, J. R. and Hall, R.L.. Illinois State Museum, Scientific Papers 12:35–84.Google Scholar
Roedl, L. J., and Howard, J. H. 1957 Archaeological investigations at the Rennersite. Missouri Archaeologist 19(1-2):53–96.Google Scholar
Stacy, J. R. 1958 Terrain diagrams in isometric projection-simplified. Association of American Geographers,Annals 48:232–236.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thwaites, R. G. (Editor) 1904 Early western travels, 1748-1846 5–6. A. H.Clark Co. Google Scholar
U.S. Department of Agriculture 1960 Soil classification, a comprehensive system:7th approximation. Soil Survey Staff, Soil ConservationService, U.S. Department of Agriculture.Google Scholar
Wedel, M. M. 1959 Oneota sites on the upper Iowa River. Missouri Archaeologist 21(2-4).Google Scholar
Wedel, W. R. 1943 Archeological investigations in Platte andClay counties, Missouri. U.S. National Museum,Bulletin 183.Google Scholar
West, Judge E. P. 1882 Archaeological explorations of the MissouriRiver. Kansas City Review of Science 5:529–534.Google Scholar