Contextualizing Figurines and Earspools from the East St. Louis Mound Center

Thomas Emerson; Steve Boles; Sarah U. Wisseman; Randall E. Hughes

Contextualizing Figurines and Earspools from the East St. Louis Mound Center

Thomas Emerson, Steve Boles, Sarah U. Wisseman, Randall E. Hughes

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Ongoing studies have shown that there are culturally and chronologically distinct patterns of prehistoric pipestone use in the Midcontinent. Cahokian use of pipestones has been generally restricted to the manufacture of distinctive Cahokia-style figures from local St. Louis flint clay. Ongoing excavations at the East St. Louis Mound Center have confirmed this pattern with the recovery of two new Cahokia flint clay figures. However, for the first time, we found evidence that unworked Baraboo pipestone nodules from Wisconsin (650 km to the north) were being imported for local earspool manufacturing. The broader regional context of this new evidence is discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Program and Abstracts - 56th Annual Meeting
Publisher	Midwest Archaeological Conference
Pages	56
State	Published - 2010
Event	2010 Midwest Archaeological Conference - Bloomington, United States Duration: Oct 21 2010 → Oct 24 2010

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Conference	2010 Midwest Archaeological Conference
Country/Territory	United States
City	Bloomington
Period	10/21/10 → 10/24/10

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