Questioning the Native American Population Rebound in the Horseshoe Lake Watershed from AD 1500 to AD 1700

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ID2096256
AuthorsB Jacob Skousen (0000-0002-2768-409X, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author), Michael J Aiuvalasit (0000-0002-5802-8474, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume86
Issue1
Pages199-202
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/aaq.2020.74
OpenAlexW3116719837
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited6

White and colleagues (2020) have argued that after Cahokia's AD 1400 decline, the native population in the Horseshoe Lake Watershed rebounded beginning in AD 1500 and peaked around 1650, and that the native groups populating the area were members of the Illinois Confederation. These arguments are based on a population reconstruction obtained from fecal stanol concentrations from Horseshoe Lake sediment cores and regional historical, archaeological, and environmental data. We argue that their interpretations are problematic because they discount extensive regional archaeological and historical datasets and do not consider alternative hypotheses that could explain high levels of fecal stanol concentrations in lake sediments

Archaeology · Biology · Geography · Holocene · Horseshoe (symbol) · Paleolimnology · Population · Sociology · Watershed · White (mutation) · Archaeology and Natural History · Demography · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Tree-ring climate responses

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