Middle Mississippian Agricultural Fields

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2563087
AutoresMelvin L Fowler (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, autor correspondente)
Ano1969
Volume34
Fascículo4
Páginas365-375
Data de publicação1969-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/277733
OpenAlexW2315337901
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22

Aerial photographs made with hand-held cameras and taken from small aircraft revealed soil discolorations on two sites in Illinois. The light and dark parallel lines were interpreted as evidence of prehistoric agricultural fields. Evidence of houses in the center of these fields was also noted. Ground reconnaissance, controlled surface collecting, and cross-trenching tended to confirm this interpretation. These data were compared with archaeological evidence from Macon Plateau in Georgia and historic records for the Great Lakes region. It is proposed that Mississippian agriculture was based upon a field system and a technique of ridge-furrow cultivation that made it possible to utilize low-lying river bottom land

Agriculture · Archaeology · Geography · Geotechnical engineering · Hydrology (agriculture) · Plateau (mathematics) · Prehistory · Ridge · American Environmental and Regional History · Archaeology and Natural History · Geology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Paleontology