Journal article
Ceramics and Community Structure: A Reanalysis of Material from the Minneapolis Site (140T5)
Plains anthropologist, Vol.43(165), pp.287-310
08/01/1998
DOI: 10.1080/2052546.1998.11931873
Abstract
The Minneapolis site (140T5), a late prehistoric Smoky Hill phase site, has been interpreted as a village since the first excavations there in 1934. This congregation of at least 24 mounds has figured prominently in discussions of Smoky Hill phase and Central Plains tradition social organization, and has been mentioned by several authors hoping to draw parallels between the ethnographic record of the Pawnee and the lifeways of Central Plains tradition groups. Other authors have proposed that some Central Plains tradition multi-house sites are not villages but collections of noncontemporaneous houses. This notion is tested here through a reanalysis of ceramics from Houses 1-3 at the Minneapolis site. Results are suggestive rather than conclusive, but the study does reveal several reasons why house assemblages should be analyzed and reported individually.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Ceramics and Community Structure: A Reanalysis of Material from the Minneapolis Site (140T5)
- Creators
- Margaret Beck - University of Arizona
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Plains anthropologist, Vol.43(165), pp.287-310
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/2052546.1998.11931873
- ISSN
- 0032-0447
- eISSN
- 2052-546X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/1998
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology
- Record Identifier
- 9984269245502771
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