TY - JOUR
T1 - Trempealeau’s Little Bluff
T2 - An Early Cahokian Terraformed Landmark in the Upper Mississippi Valley
AU - Pauketat, Timothy R.
AU - Boszhardt, Robert F.
AU - Kolb, Michael
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding for the Mississippian Initiative investigations of Little Bluff was provided by the National Science Foundation (BCS-0924138). These investigations were carried out with the permission and cooperation of the Village of Trempealeau, the Wisconsin State Archaeologist
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Midwest Archaeological Conference.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Archaeological and geomorphological investigations of Little Bluff (47Tr32), in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, reveal how and, possibly, why this loess-capped sandstone ridge spur was anthropogenically altered in the mid-eleventh century A.D. Project excavation units and trenches dug in 2010–2011 revealed the timing, rate of completion, structure, symmetry, and orientation of the construction. In addition to delineating construction details and associated archaeological features, our research suggests that Cahokians, by sculpting and rebuilding this ridge spur, were actively positioning themselves vis-à-vis the wider Mississippi Valley landscape, if not the cosmos generally.
AB - Archaeological and geomorphological investigations of Little Bluff (47Tr32), in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, reveal how and, possibly, why this loess-capped sandstone ridge spur was anthropogenically altered in the mid-eleventh century A.D. Project excavation units and trenches dug in 2010–2011 revealed the timing, rate of completion, structure, symmetry, and orientation of the construction. In addition to delineating construction details and associated archaeological features, our research suggests that Cahokians, by sculpting and rebuilding this ridge spur, were actively positioning themselves vis-à-vis the wider Mississippi Valley landscape, if not the cosmos generally.
KW - Archaeoastronomy
KW - Cahokia
KW - Landscape archaeology
KW - Mississippian
KW - Trempealeau
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U2 - 10.1080/01461109.2017.1346213
DO - 10.1080/01461109.2017.1346213
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85028636295
SN - 0146-1109
VL - 42
SP - 168
EP - 199
JO - Midcontinental journal of archaeology, MCJA
JF - Midcontinental journal of archaeology, MCJA
IS - 2
ER -