Orendorf Settlement D: A Burned Fortified Mississippian Town in the Central Illinois River Valley

Lawrence A. Conrad (Editor), Kjersti E. Emerson (Editor), Thomas E. Emerson (Editor), Duane E Esarey (Editor)

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Abstract

This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of a catastrophically burned, thirteenth-century Spoon River Mississippian palisaded town in the central Illinois River valley. During its occupation Orendorf Settlement D underwent multiple expansions, as well as changes in the community, ritual, and elite structures. Salvage excavations by a group of dedicated volunteers and the Upper Mississippi Valley Archaeological Research Foundation (UMVARF) revealed large community or civic buildings, rotundas, a cruciform temple structure, and dozens of rectangular wall-trench domestic structures surrounding a central plaza. The intact artifact assemblages found on the burned structure floors, described and illustrated in detail in this volume, provide a rare glimpse into Orendorf phase daily life and practices in the Cahokia hinterlands.
Original languageEnglish (US)
PublisherIllinois State Archaeological Survey
Number of pages574
StatePublished - 2020

Publication series

NameISAS Research Report
Volume50

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