Black Sand culture origins and distribution
essay 1986 • Farnsworth, Kenneth B.

Eastern Early Woodland • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Farnsworth 'briefly summarize[s] ideas … [on] the origin, spread, and eventual disappearance of Blank Sand culture and artifacts in the upper Midwest.' (page 634). Black Sand sites are small, shifting camps on or near large rivers and streams. Farnsw...

Early Woodland chronology, artifact styles, and settlement distribution in the lower Illinois Valley region
essay 1986 • Farnsworth, Kenneth B. & Asch, David L.

Eastern Early Woodland • North America > Eastern Woodlands
'The Center for American Archeology (CAA) … has conducted field studies in the lower Illinois Valley region for over 25 years.… This paper summarizes data accumulated on Early Woodland sites in the lower Illinois Valley drainage.… [D]ata are also inc...

Patterns of Late Woodland/Mississippian interaction in the lower Illinois valley drainage
essay 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...

Woodland subsistence settlement in west central Illinois
essay 1979 • Asch, David L. et al.

Hopewell • North America > Eastern Woodlands
The authors of this paper examine subsistence and settlement for the entire Woodland period. Only the data pertaining to the Middle Woodland were indexed for OCM (Outline of Cultural Materials) subjects. Among the topics the authors briefly discuss a...