TY - GEN
T1 - Constructing Identity on the Langford Frontier: The 2019 ISAS Excavations at the Noble-Wieting Site
AU - Skousen, B. Jacob
AU - McCullough, Robert G.
N1 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Illinois Archaeological Survey, 6-7 September 2019, Collinsville, IL
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This paper summarizes ISAS’s 2019 excavations at the Noble-Wieting site, a Langford Tradition village with substantial Mississippian ceramics located in McLean County, Illinois. A rebuilt wall-trench structure, Feature 33, was the focus of the excavations. Like other structures excavated at Noble-Wieting, Feature 33 differs from most Langford Tradition structures excavated at sites along the Fox, Illinois, and Rock River valleys to the north due to its incorporation of Mississippian-style construction techniques. While interpretations are preliminary, the close association of social identity and domestic architecture suggests that the existence of unique architectural construction patterns at Noble-Wieting may be indicative of two co-existing social or ethnic groups who were forging a new identity. This is further supported by Noble-Wietings’s location on the Langford frontier.
AB - This paper summarizes ISAS’s 2019 excavations at the Noble-Wieting site, a Langford Tradition village with substantial Mississippian ceramics located in McLean County, Illinois. A rebuilt wall-trench structure, Feature 33, was the focus of the excavations. Like other structures excavated at Noble-Wieting, Feature 33 differs from most Langford Tradition structures excavated at sites along the Fox, Illinois, and Rock River valleys to the north due to its incorporation of Mississippian-style construction techniques. While interpretations are preliminary, the close association of social identity and domestic architecture suggests that the existence of unique architectural construction patterns at Noble-Wieting may be indicative of two co-existing social or ethnic groups who were forging a new identity. This is further supported by Noble-Wietings’s location on the Langford frontier.
KW - ISAS
UR - https://ilarchsurv.org/resources/Documents/IAS2019PreliminaryProgramAbstracts.pdf
M3 - Conference contribution
BT - Program and Abstracts - 63rd Annual Meeting
ER -