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A Retrospective look at the earliest Woodland cultures in the American heartlandessay 1986 • Emerson, Thomas E.
Eastern Early Woodland • North America > Eastern Woodlands
'A central research question of the conference concerned archaeologists' ability to actually delineate the 'beginnings' of Early Woodland, and so distinguish it from immediately preceding (or contemporaneous?) Late Archaic cultures.…Given the nature ...The Apple River Mississippian culture of northwestern Illinoisessay 1991 • Emerson, Thomas E.
Mississippian • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Outside of the American Bottom and the Illinois River Valley, the only known concentration of northern Mississippian peoples is in the Apple River Vallley of northwestern Illilnois. After a long period of delay, new archaeological investigations have...Some perspectives on Cahokia and the northern Mississippian expansionessay 1991 • Emerson, Thomas E.
Mississippian • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This paper focuses on an examination of the relationship between the late prehistoric peoples of Cahokia and the Upper Mississippi River Valley. Emerson attempts to synthesize ca. 1991 information on Cahokia and American Bottom Mississippian cultural...Early Woodland cultural variation, subsistence, and settlement in the American Bottomessay 1986 • Emerson, Thomas E. & Fortier, Andrew C.
Eastern Early Woodland • North America > Eastern Woodlands
'The purpose of this paper is to present a summary of current information available on Early Woodland cultures of the American Bottom, Illinois.…This paper will follow a descriptive cultural-historical approach, and will concentrate on defining the E...Referencesessay 1991 • Emerson, Thomas E. & Lewis, R. Barry
Mississippian • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This work consists of bibliographical citations from Cahokia and the hinterlands : middle Mississipian cultures of the Midwest, edited by Thomas E. Emerson and R. Barry Lewis...Prefaceessay 1991 • Emerson, Thomas E. & Lewis, R. Barry
Mississippian • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This article is the preface to the publication 'Cahokia and the Hinterlands: Middle Misssissippian Cultures of the Midwest', edited by Thomas E. Emerson and R. Barry Lewis. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois press, 2000. The editors present a...A settlement-subsistence model of the Terminal Late Archaic adaptation in the American Bottom, Illinoisessay 1983 • Emerson, Thomas E., 1945 & McElrath, Dale L., 1949
Eastern Late Archaic • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Emerson and McElrath examine the characteristics of the Terminal Archaic Prairie Lake phase in the American Bottom in Illinois with a discussion of the large-scale excavations at two sites: Dryoff-Levin (11-S-462/463) and Missouri Pacific #2 (11-S-46...Patterns of Late Woodland/Mississippian interaction in the lower Illinois valley drainageessay 1991 • Farnsworth, Kenneth B. et al.
Mississippian • North America > Eastern Woodlands
It has been widely believed by archaeologists that lower valley Late Woodland populations were physically replaced or integrated into American Bottom Mississippian cultural systems after about 1000 A.D. In this article the authors explore the possibi...