The domestication of dogs likely occurred in Eurasia by 16,000 years ago, and the initial
peopling of the Americas potentially happened around the same time. Dogs were long thought …

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 …

Mary W. Helms’s observation that spatial distance often correlates with spiritual power has
become an axiom in interpreting the role of exotic materials in societies. This is especially …

Archaeologists have long recognized that the Hopewell period was marked by the
movement of exotic raw materials and artifacts across the eastern United States. The use of …

With the development of direct detection radiocarbon dating, which uses an accelerator as
part of a highly selective mass spectrometer, it is now possible to determine the age of …

Traditional exchange models purport that all Hopewell-style platform pipes of flint clay were
quarried and crafted in southern Ohio by Native Americans from a local kaolinitic flint clay, …

During the 7,500-year-longArchaic period (ca. 10,000 BP–2500 BP in uncalibrated radiocarbon
years), Native American culture changed substantially in the lower Illinois River basin of …

It has been widely believed by archaeologists that lower valley Late Woodland populations
were physically replaced or integrated into American Bottom Mississippian cultural systems …

This paper provides an overview and preliminary performance assessment of an adapted
version of the Raytheon Systems Company GPS Aided Inertial Navigation System (GAINS) for …

Midcontinental pipestone quarries in Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, and
Kansas were utilized by a number of native cultures from 5000 YRBP through historic times. …