Was Yankeetown an Angel Mounds Progenitor?

Was Yankeetown an Angel Mounds Progenitor?

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Main Author: Pritchett, Phoebe
Language:English
Published: University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK 2013
Subjects:
Archaeology
Yankeetown
Angel Mounds
Mississippian
Late Woodland
Emergent Mississippian
Online Access:http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1368013931
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spelling ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ucin13680139312021-08-03T05:23:24Z Was Yankeetown an Angel Mounds Progenitor? Pritchett, Phoebe Archaeology Archaeology Yankeetown Angel Mounds Mississippian Late Woodland Emergent Mississippian A significant and lingering question in Ohio Valley archaeology is the genetic ancestry and cultural origin of Mississippian peoples. Most archaeologists assume that Mississippian peoples migrated into the Mississippi River valley from an undefined cultural homeland. Recent archaeological data, however, challenges the cultural homeland hypothesis. An alternative hypothesis suggests that Mississippian culture developed from a pre-existing in situ population in the Ohio River valley, such as Yankeetown. Evidence in support of this hypothesis is the appearance of Mississippian-like artifacts and features that predate developed Mississippian populations. Presently, these opposed hypotheses remain untested. The development of Mississippian sites seems to happen simultaneously over a large area with a multitude of potential causes. Migration may have played a role in some areas, but not everywhere. Mississippianization of the area may be a result of a combination of human population growth, changes in subsistence strategy, and/or sociopolitical organization.The Yankeetown site, which dates from ca. A.D. 700 to A.D. 1100, has been defined as both a Late Woodland and Emergent Mississippian site depending upon cultural traits and inferred subsistence strategy. It is located in Warren County, Indiana, less than ten miles from the Mississippian Angel Mounds site located in adjacent Vanderburgh County, Indiana. Angel Mounds was occupied between ca. A.D. 1050 and A.D. 1400 and is a classic example of a Mississippian ceremonial center, village and mortuary site with platform mounds and a central plaza. The possible relationship between Yankeetown and Angel Mounds has long been debated. Because of the chronological overlap and geographic proximity of these two sites, it seems likely that goods, services, or people were exchanged. Alternatively, it may be possible that the people of Yankeetown were the founding population of Angel Mounds.If the Yankeetown people were the progenitors of Angel Mounds, then we should expect to see a closely related pattern of cultural traits (i.e., artifacts and archaeological features). In order to test the relationship of the cultural traits of Yankeetown and Angel Mounds, I performed hierarchical cluster analysis on 364 distinctive cultural traits from sixteen penecontemporary archaeological assemblages in the Midwestern United States using Euclidean distances and maximum linkages. 2013-10-15 English text University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1368013931 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1368013931 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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language English
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topic Archaeology
Archaeology
Yankeetown
Angel Mounds
Mississippian
Late Woodland
Emergent Mississippian
spellingShingle Archaeology
Archaeology
Yankeetown
Angel Mounds
Mississippian
Late Woodland
Emergent Mississippian
Pritchett, Phoebe
Was Yankeetown an Angel Mounds Progenitor?
author Pritchett, Phoebe
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title_full Was Yankeetown an Angel Mounds Progenitor?
title_fullStr Was Yankeetown an Angel Mounds Progenitor?
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