essay
A Retrospective look at the earliest Woodland cultures in the American heartland
early woodland archeology • 2 • Published In 1986 • Pages: 621-633
By: Emerson, Thomas E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
'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 of the preceding papers,… it is appropriate to reexamine the usefulness of this aggregation of traits for recongnizing the first Early Woodland cultures of the Midwest.' (page 621). Emerson then reviews the data from eHRAF documents nos. 11-39 concerning burial mounds in Illinois, the derivation of ceramics and lithics in the Midwest, cultigens, the various cultures in the Midwest, and suggestions for future research.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Location
- Ceramic technology
- Weapons
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Eastern Early Woodland
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Early Woodland
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Midwest, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thomas E. Emerson
- Papers presented at the Kampsville Early Woodland Conference held on Nov. 5th and 6th, 1982, and sponsored by the Center for American Archeology
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 631-633)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86025855
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Antiquities