A Woodland Burial from Boney Spring, Missouri
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9216785 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William M Bass (Department of AnthropologyUniversity of Tennessee Knoxville,Tennessee 37916, corresponding author), R Bruce McMillans (Quaternary Studies Center Illinois State Museum Springfield,Illinois 62706) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 62 |
| Pages | 313-315 |
| Publication date | 1973-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Plains Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2052546.1973.11908667 |
| OpenAlex | W1560817923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
A secondary burial from a peat layer adjoining the spring feeder at Boney Spring, Benton County, southwestern Missouri, is identified as a young adult male, interred about A.D. 50. The burial, associated with Early Woodland materials in the peat bed, was less than one meter from the edge of the spring feeder in deposits once saturated with water - suggesting that the burial (and associated Woodland features) was made at a time of reduced spring discharge and, perhaps, during a period of reduced precipitation. The burial is well within the limits of characteristics recorded for eastern Archaic groups, lending support to the hypothesis of continuity between the Archaic and Early Woodland peoples in the American Midwest
Archaeology · Geography · Geotechnical engineering · Hydrology (agriculture · Peat · Spring (device · Woodland · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · Ecology · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1976 - 2019 (44) |
| Highly cited | No |