Mortuary Practices, Cultural Context, Bayesian Chronology, and Maize Consumption among Terminal Late Woodland Societies in Northeastern Illinois
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11205404 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas E Emerson (0000-0002-6540-3359, Illinois State Archaeological Survey, corresponding author), Kjersti E Emerson (0009-0001-3865-6019, Illinois State Archaeological Survey), Kristin M Hedman (0000-0001-5929-6887, Illinois State Archaeological Survey), Matthew A Fort (0000-0003-4767-6887, Illinois State Archaeological Survey) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 149-180 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0146-1109 • E-ISSN: 2327-4271 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01461109.2019.1565359 |
| OpenAlex | W2914045902 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 13 |
In 1940, Gretchen Cutter and a WPA crew conducted excavations in the Mound Wio5 at the Fisher site in Will County, Illinois. We examined those materials as part of our reanalysis of the Fisher site excavations by George Langford and the University of Chicago. The mound’s material culture correlates with the Des Plaines phase but contains strong connections to the east, especially with Albee phase mortuary practices. Calibrated 14C dates and Bayesian modeling place the Des Plaines phase as contemporary with the Mound Wio5 mortuary’s primary use during the ninth to eleventh centuries. There is isotopic evidence of a mixed C3/C4 diet with some maize consumption. Mound Wio5 represents the only Terminal Late Woodland collective mortuary facility currently known in northeastern Illinois. The identification of such multigenerational communal Terminal Late Woodland mortuary practices lends support to the contention that they provided the cultural base for the emergence of the distinctive Langford Tradition accretional mortuary mounds
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |