This was a multicomponent site that included a 13th century Mississippian charnel house and cemetery and a catastrophically-buried Early Woodland component. The total excavation this cemetery provided additional information on 13th century Mississippian burial practices, health and social organization. The Early Woodland occupation contained extensive midden deposits as well as hearths and pits. These cultural features, along with the grog-tempered ceramics and contracting stem points, formed the basis for the definition of the Florence phase (300-500 B.C.). This phase has its closest connections to contemporaneous cultures in the Mid-south.

Florence Street (11-S-758) Site: Early Woodland and Mississippian Occupations. Vol. 2 (American Bottom Archaeology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Milner, George R.

Emerson, Thomas E.

Jackson, Douglas K

Archaeology

Illinois Transportation

A multi-component site containing a Terminal Late Woodland (Emergent Mississippian) linear hamlet that provided the type site for the Lindeman Phase (A.D. 950-1000) and the first excavated example of an early Mississippian temple, charnel house, and mortuary area with exotic materials including spectacular stone figurines.

BBB Motor (11-MS-595) Site: A MISSISSIPPIAN OCCUPATION. VOL. 6 (American Bottom Archaeology)

History

Americas

Go-Kart North represents the first major Late Archaic, Titterington phase base camp excavated and dated in the American Bottom and is significant for its impressive knife and projectile point assemblage. The several hundred features excavated at the Dyroff-Levin sites represent part of an important terminal Late Archaic Prairie Lake phase base local.

Go-Kart North (11-MO-552N) Site, and the Dyroff (11-S-463) and Levin (11-S-462) Sites: LATE ARCHAIC OCCUPATIONS. VOL. 9 (American Bottom Archaeology)

Fortier, Andrew C

This study uses the theoretical concepts of agency, power, and ideology to explore the development of cultural complexity within the hierarchically organized Cahokia Middle Mississippian society of the American Bottom from the 11th to the 13th centuries. By scrutinizing the available archaeological settlement and symbolic evidence, Emerson demonstrates that many sites previously identified as farmsteads were actually nodal centers with specialized political, religious, and economic functions integrated into a centralized administrative organization. These centers consolidated the symbolism of such 'artifacts of power' as figurines, ritual vessels, and sacred plants into a rural cult that marked the expropriation of the cosmos as part of the increasing power of the Cahokian rulers. During the height of Cahokian centralized power, it is argued, the elites had convinced their subjects that they ruled both the physical and the spiritual worlds. Emerson concludes that Cahokian complexity differs significantly in degree and form from previously studied Eastern Woodlands chiefdoms and opens new discussion about the role of rural support for the Cahokian ceremonial center.

Cahokia and the Archaeology of Power

University Alabama Press

Mississippian stone images in Illinois (Circular / Illinois Archaeological Survey)

Illinois Archaeological Survey

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