TY - GEN
T1 - Pipestone Utilization in the Midcontinent
AU - Wisseman, Sarah
AU - Emerson, Thomas E.
AU - Hughes, Randall
AU - Farnsworth, Kenneth
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - A team of archaeologists and geologists at the University of Illinois has spent over fifteen years analyzing quarry samples and artifacts from the Midcontinent. Using PIMA spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and selected chemical techniques, we have identified previously unknown sources of pipestone in northern Illinois and Missouri and characterized sources in Wisconsin (Barron and Baraboo counties), Ohio (Feurt Hill and Portsmouth), Minnesota, and Kansas. Our major findings are that prehistoric peoples sometimes chose their raw material for reasons other than proximity to a source of carvable pipestone, and that the Ohio sites of Tremper Mound and Mound City have completely different patterns of pipestone use despite their proximity to each other. Work continues to better understand the range of variation within individual sources and changes in pipestone use over time.
AB - A team of archaeologists and geologists at the University of Illinois has spent over fifteen years analyzing quarry samples and artifacts from the Midcontinent. Using PIMA spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and selected chemical techniques, we have identified previously unknown sources of pipestone in northern Illinois and Missouri and characterized sources in Wisconsin (Barron and Baraboo counties), Ohio (Feurt Hill and Portsmouth), Minnesota, and Kansas. Our major findings are that prehistoric peoples sometimes chose their raw material for reasons other than proximity to a source of carvable pipestone, and that the Ohio sites of Tremper Mound and Mound City have completely different patterns of pipestone use despite their proximity to each other. Work continues to better understand the range of variation within individual sources and changes in pipestone use over time.
KW - ISGS
KW - ISAS
UR - http://www.saa.org/Portals/0/SAA/Meetings/2013%20Abstracts/Individual_Abstracts.pdf#Page=412
M3 - Conference contribution
SP - 444
BT - Abstracts of the SAA 78th Annual Meeting 3-7 April, 2013 Honolulu, Hawaii
ER -