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The Apple River Mississippian culture of northwestern Illinois
cahokia and the hinterlands : middle mississipian cultures of the midwest • Urbana • Published In 1991 • Pages: 164-182
By: Emerson, Thomas E..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 one again begun in the valley. In this document Emerson reviews these new excavations, as well as previous literature on the area, and establishes a basic cultural chronology for the newly defined Apple River Mississippian culture. In this process he discards the old Apple River Focus formulation and postulates vqrious regional relationships within the specified area of study.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical reconstruction
- Ceramic technology
- Miscellaneous structures
- Refuse disposal and sanitary facilities
- Visual arts
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Typologies and classifications
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mississippian
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 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
- 1000 BP - 400 BP (1000 A.D. - 1600 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Apple River Mississippian Culture, northwestern Illinois, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Thomas E. Emerson
- 'Published in cooperation with the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency.' For bibliographical references see document 2: Emerson and Lewis
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90010759
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mississippian culture