TY - GEN
T1 - Copper, Earth, and Water: More Details from the Emerald Acropolis
AU - Pauketat, Timothy R.
AU - Alt, Susan M.
AU - Kruchten, Jeffery D.
N1 - 63rd Annual Meeting of the Illinois Archaeological Survey, 6-7 September 2019, Collinsville, IL
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - University of Illinois and Indiana University excavations at the Emerald site (11S1) in 2012-2016 revealed that this unusual hilltop shrine complex had been anthropogenically enhanced through a series of temporally isolated, construction pulses. Between each pulse it rained or it snowed. In this presentation, we outline the stratigraphic and micromorphological evidence of these pulses. Then, we highlight their relationship to a copper deposit, where flecks of the hammered metal are closely associated with water-laid sediments. We infer that the copper deposit was not a workshop, per se, but an offering to or in water.
AB - University of Illinois and Indiana University excavations at the Emerald site (11S1) in 2012-2016 revealed that this unusual hilltop shrine complex had been anthropogenically enhanced through a series of temporally isolated, construction pulses. Between each pulse it rained or it snowed. In this presentation, we outline the stratigraphic and micromorphological evidence of these pulses. Then, we highlight their relationship to a copper deposit, where flecks of the hammered metal are closely associated with water-laid sediments. We infer that the copper deposit was not a workshop, per se, but an offering to or in water.
KW - ISAS
UR - https://ilarchsurv.org/resources/Documents/IAS2019PreliminaryProgramAbstracts.pdf
M3 - Conference contribution
BT - Program and Abstracts - 63rd Annual Meeting
ER -