TY - GEN
T1 - Diaspora and Reinventing Cahokia in the Vincennes Region
AU - Skousen, Jacob
N1 - 74th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, November 8-11, 2017, Tulsa, Oklahoma
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Diaspora involves population dispersal, maintaining connections to a homeland, and group identity preservation, though some argue that it is also a process of negotiation between the various groups involved. In this paper, I discuss this process of reinvention for Vincennes phase peoples, or populations who lived in the Wabash Valley and its tributaries between 1100 and 1500 A.D., in the wake of Cahokian diaspora. Despite early influence from Cahokia, pottery, settlement, and household data indicate that Wabash Valley groups reinvented themselves by adopting a mix of cultural traits from surrounding populations, forming what archaeologists now recognize as the Vincennes phase.
AB - Diaspora involves population dispersal, maintaining connections to a homeland, and group identity preservation, though some argue that it is also a process of negotiation between the various groups involved. In this paper, I discuss this process of reinvention for Vincennes phase peoples, or populations who lived in the Wabash Valley and its tributaries between 1100 and 1500 A.D., in the wake of Cahokian diaspora. Despite early influence from Cahokia, pottery, settlement, and household data indicate that Wabash Valley groups reinvented themselves by adopting a mix of cultural traits from surrounding populations, forming what archaeologists now recognize as the Vincennes phase.
KW - ISAS
UR - https://www.southeasternarchaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/SEACBulletinLayout.pdf#page=86
M3 - Conference contribution
VL - 60
T3 - Bulletin
SP - 86
BT - Proceedings of the 74th Annual Meeting
ER -