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Archaic adaptations to the Illinois Prairie: the Salt Creek region
archaic hunters and gatherers in the american midwest • New York • Published In 1983 • Pages: 99-119
By: Lewis, R. Barry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The upper Salt Creek drainage was surveyed prior to construction of the Clinton Nuclear Power Station and Reservoir. The region is still relatively unknown archaeologically which is why the Middle and Late Archaic are treated as one temporal unit in this document; not enough is known about the Middle Archaic to be able to define it archaeologically. Lewis also explains that most of what is known about the Archaic comes from investigation of Late Archaic sites and this document describes the findings from the Pabst site, a Late Archaic site in the North Fork Valley. (However, the only OCM code used for this site is 174.) He also discusses Middle to Late Archaic settlement patterns, topography, and why base camps are found where they are.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Topography and geology
- Flora
- Historical reconstruction
- Settlement patterns
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Eastern Middle Archaic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2001
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1973-1976
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Middle and Late Archaic periods
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- upper Salt Creek drainage; Illinois, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- R. Barry Lewis
- Based on a symposium held at the Midwest Archaeological Conference, University of Illinois at Chicago, October 1980
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-116)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82024459
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Middle West--Antiquities