The vacant quarter revisited: Late Mississippian abandonment of the lower Ohio Valley

American Antiquity

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 625-641

  Cobb, Charles R ^a   Butler, Brian M ^b  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442629915     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1593795     Document Type: Article

References (84)

1. Ahlstrom, R. V. N., C. R. Van West, and J. S. Dean 1995 Environmental and Chronological Factors in the Mesa Verde-Northem Rio Grande Migration. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 14:125-142.
2. Aitken, M. J. 1990 Science-Based Dating in Archaeology. Longman, London.
3. Anderson, D. G. 1994 The Savannah River Chiefdoms: Political Change in the Late Prehistoric Southeast. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
4. Anderson, D. G., D. W. Stahle, and M. K. Cleaveland 1995 Paleoclimate and the Potential Food Reserves of Mississippian Societies: A Case Study from the Savannah River Valley. American Antiquity 60:258-286.
5. Beadles, R. W. 1990 A History of Southernmost Illinois. Illinois Local History Project (for Southernmost Illinois), No. 1. Gateway Press, Des Peres, Missouri.
6. Bell, R. E. 1951 Dendrochronology at the Kincaid Site. In Kincaid: A Prehistoric Illinois Metropolis, by F.-C. Cole et al., pp. 233-293. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
7. Blitz, J. H. 1999 Mississippian Chiefdoms and the Fission-Fusion Process. American Antiquity 64:577-592.
8. Bridges, P. S., K. P. Jacobi, and M. L. Powell 2000 Warfare-Related Trauma in the Late Prehistory of Alabama. In Bioarchaeological Studies of Life in the Age of Agriculture: A View from the Southeast, edited by P. M. Lambert, pp. 35-62. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
9. Brown, J. A. 1976 The Southern Cult Reconsidered. Midcontmental Journal of Archaeology 1:115-135.
10. Butler, B. M. 1977 Mississippian Settlement in the Black Bottom, Pope and Massac Counties, Illinois. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
11. Butler, B. M.1991 Kincaid Revisited: The Mississippian Sequence in the Lower Ohio Valley. In Cahokia and the Hinterlands, edited by T. E. Emerson and R. B. Lewis, pp. 264-273. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
12. Butler, B. M., and C. R. Cobb 2002 Millstone Bluff: A First Approximation. In Current Research in Kentucky, edited by C. S. K. Carstehs and C. Hockensmith. Kentucky Heritage Commission, Frankfort, in press.
13. Butler, B. M., J. M. Penny, and C. A. Robison 1981 Archaeological Survey and Evaluation for the Shawnee A.F.B.C. Plant, McCracken County, Kentucky. Report prepared for the Tennessee Valley Authority. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University,Carbondale.
14. Cameron, C. M. 1995 Migration and the Movement of Southwestern Peoples. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 14:104-124.
15. Clay, R. B. 1997 The Mississippian Succession on the Lower Ohio.Southeastern Archaeology 16:16-32.
16. Cobb, C. R. 1989 An Appraisal of the Role of Mill Creek Chert Hoes in Mississippian Exchange Systems. Southeastern Archaeology 8:79-92.
17. Cobb, C. R.1991 100 Years of Investigations at the Linn Site in Southern Illinois. Illinois Archaeology 3:56-76.
18. Cobb, C. R.2000 From Quarry to Cornfield: the Political Economy of Mississippian Hoe Production. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
19. Cole, F.-C, R. Bell, J. Caldwell, N. Emerson, R. MacNeish, K. Orr.and R.Willis 1951 Kincaid: A Prehistoric Illinois Metropolis. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
20. Douglass, A. E. 1929 The Secret of the Southwest Solved by Talkative Tree Rings. National Geographic Magazine 56:736-770.
21. Drooker, P. B. 1997 The View from Madisonville: Protohistoric Western Fort Ancient Interaction Patterns. Museum of Anthropology, Memoirs No. 31. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
22. Duff, A. I., and R. H. Wilshusen 2000 Prehistoric Population Dynamics in the Northern San Juan Region, A.D. 950-1300. Kiva 66:167-190.
23. Dye, D. H. 1990 Warfare in the Sixteenth-Century Southeast: The de Soto Expedition in the Interior. In Columbian Consequences, vol. 2, edited by D. H. Thomas, pp. 211-222. Smithsonian Institution Press,
24. Funk, R. E. 1993 Archaeological Investigations in the Upper Susquehanna Valley, New York State, vol. 1. Persimmon Press, Buffalo, New York.
25. Green, T. J., and C. A. Munson 1978 Mississippian Settlement Patterns in Southwestern Indiana. In Mississippian Settlement Patterns, edited by B. D. Smith, pp. 293-330. Academic Press, New York.
26. Grove, J. M. 1988 The Little Ice Age. Methuen, London.
27. Hilgeman, S. L. 2000 Pottery and Chronology at Angel. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
28. Jackson, D. K. 1992 Oneota in the American Bottom In The Sponemann Site 2: The Mississippian and Oneota Occupations, by D. K. Jackson, A. C. Fortier, and J. A. Williams, pp. 383-391.American Bottom Archaeology, FAI-270 Site Reports 24. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
29. Jeske, R. J. 1998 The Davidson Site: A Huber/Berrien Phase Upper Mississippian Site in Porter County, Indiana. Michigan Archaeologist 44:121-150.
30. Jones, P. D., T. J. Osborn, and K. R. Briffa 2001 The Evolution of Climate Over the Last Millennium. Science 292:662-667.
31. Kreisa, P. P. 1988 Second Order Communities in Western Kentucky: Site Survey and Excavation at Late Woodland and Mississippian Period Sites. Western Kentucky Project Report No. 7. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana.
32. Kreisa, P. P.1991 Mississippian Sites of the Lower Ohio River Valley in Kentucky. Western Kentucky Project Report No. 9. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana.
33. Kreisa, P. P.1995 Mississippian Secondary Centers Along the Lower Ohio River Valley: An Overview of Some Sociopolitical Considerations. In Current Archaeological Research in Kentucky: Volume Three, edited by J. Doershuk et al., pp. 161-177. The Kentucky Heritage Council, Frankfort.
34. Kohler.T.A. 2000 The Final 400 Years of Prehispanic Agricultural Society in the Mesa Verde Region. Kiva 66:191-204.
35. Kuckelman, K. A., R. R. Lightfoot, and D. L. Martin 2000 Changing Patterns of Violence in the Northern San Juan Region. Kiva 66:147-165.
36. Lekson, S. H., and C. M. Cameron 1995 The Abandonment of Chaco Canyon, the Mesa Verde Migrations, and the Reorganization of the Pueblo World. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 14:184-203.
37. Lewin, R. 1992 Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos. Macmillan, New York.
38. Lewis, R. B. 1990 The Late Prehistory of the Ohio-Mississippi Rivers Confluence Region, Kentucky and Missouri. In Towns and Temples along the Mississippi, edited by D. H. Dye and C. A. Cox, pp. 38-58. The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
39. Lewis, R. B. (editor) 1986 Mississippian Towns of the Western Kentucky Border: The Adams, Wickliffe, and Sassafras Ridge Sites. Kentucky Heritage Council, Frankfort.
40. Lewis, T. M. N., and M. K. Lewis 1995 The Prehistory of the Chicakamauga Basin, vol. 1. Com
41. Lipe, W. D. 1995 The Depopulation of the Northern San Juan: Conditions in the Turbulent 1200s. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 14:143-169.
42. Lowthert, W., C. Shields, and D. Pollack 1998 Mississippian Adaptations along the Barren River in South Central Kentucky. Research Report No. I. Kentucky Archaeological Survey, Lexington.
43. Mainfort, R. C, Jr. 1996 Late Period Chronology in the Central Mississippi Valley: AWestem Tennessee Perspective. Southeastern Archaeology 15:172-180.
44. Milner, G. R. 1993 Settlements Amidst Swamps. Illinois Archaeology 1-2:374-380.
45. Milner, G. R.1999 Warfare in Protohistoric and Early Historic Eastern North America. Journal of Archaeological Research 7:105-151.
46. Milner, G. R., E. Anderson, and V. G. Smith 1991 Warfare in Late Prehistoric West-Central Illinois. American Antiquity 56:581-603.
47. Milner, G. R., T. E. Emerson, M. W. Mehrer, J. A. Williams, and D. Esarey 1984 Mississippian and Oneota Periods. In American Bottom Archaeology, edited by C. J. Bareis and J. W. Porter, pp. 158-186. University of Illinois Press, Urbana.
48. Morse, D. E, and P. A. Morse 1983 Archaeology of the Central Mississippi Valley. Academic Press, New York.
49. Muller.J. 1986 Archaeology of the Loner Ohio RiverValley. Academic Press, Orlando, Florida.
50. Muller.J.1993 Lower Ohio Valley Mississippian Revisited: An Autocritique of the "Kincaid System." In Archaeology of Eastern North America: Papers in Honor of Stephen Williams, edited by J. B. Stoltman,pp. 128-142. Archaeological Report No. 25. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson.
51. Muller.J.1997 Mississippian Political Economy. Plenum, New York.
52. Munson, C. A. 2000 A rchaeological Suney and Testing at Protohistoric Mississippian Sites in Southwestern Indiana. Report prepared for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology and the National Park Service. Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington.
53. Nelson, M. C, and M. Hegmon 2001 Abandonment Is Not as It Seems: An Approach to the Relationship between Site and Regional Abandonment. American Antiquity 66:213-235.
54. Niquette, C. M., P. P. Kreisa, R. B. Clay, and G. D. Crites 1991 Excavations at the Andalex Village (15HK22) Hopkins County, Kentucky. Contract Publications Series 91-03. Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. Frankfort, Kentucky.
55. O'Brien, M. J., and W. R. Wood 1998 The Prehistory of Missouri. University of Missouri Press, Columbia and London.
56. Parker, K. E. 2001 Analysis of Macrobotanical Remains from the Millstone Bluff Site (1 l-Pp-3). Report prepared for the Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Great Lakes Ecosystems, Indian River, Michigan.
57. Phillips, W.A. 1899 The Aboriginal Quarries and Shops at Mill Creek, Union
58. Phillips, W.A.1900 Aboriginal Quarries and Shops at Mill Creek, Illinois. American Anthropologist 2:37-52.
59. Pollack, D. 1998 Intraregional and Intersocietal Relationships of the Late Mississippian Caborn-Welbom Phase of the Lower Ohio River Valley. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington.
60. Pollack D., and C. A. Munson ' 1998 Cabom-Welborn Ceramics: Inter-site Comparisons and Extra-regional Interaction. In Current Research in Kentucky, Volume 5, edited by K. Carstens, C. Stout, and C. Hockensmith, pp. 163-202. Kentucky Heritage Commission, Frankfort.
61. Pollack, D., and J. A. Railey 1987 Chambers (15ML109): An Upland Mississippian Village in Western Kentucky. The Kentucky Heritage Council, Frankfort.
62. Riordan, R. 1975 Ceramics and Chronology: Mississippian Settlement in the Black Bottom, Southern Illinois. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
63. Rippeteau, B. E. 1978 The Upper Susquehanna Iroquois: An Iroquoian Enigma. In Essays in Northeastern Anthropology in Memory of Marian E. White, edited by W. E. Engelbrecht and D. K. Grayson, pp. 123-151. Occasional Publications in Northeastern Anthropology No. 5. Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, New Hampshire.
64. Saitta, D. J. 1997 Power, Labor, and the Dynamics of Change in Chacoan Political Economy. American Antiquity 62:7-26.
65. Scarry, C. M. 1986 Change in Plant Procurement and Production During the Emergence of the Moundville Chiefdom. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
66. Schiffer, M. B. 1986 Radiocarbon Dates and the "Old Wood" Problem: The Case of the Hohokam Chronology. Journal of Archaeological Science 13:13-30.
67. Shott, M. J. 1992 Radiocarbon Dating as a Probabilistic Technique: The Childers Site and Late Woodland Occupation in the Ohio Valley. American Antiquity 57:202-230.
68. Stahle, D. W, M. K. Cleaveland, D. B. Blanton, M. D. Therrell, and D. A. Day 1998 The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts. Science 280:564-567.
69. Stahle, D. W, and D. Wolfman 1985 The Potential for Archaeological Tree-Ring Dating in Eastern North America. In Advances in Archaeological Method and Tlieory, vol. 8, edited by M. B. Schiffer, pp. 279-302. Academic Press, New York.
70. Stephens, J. E. 1996 Archaeological Mitigation at the Dogtooth Bend Site (11-AX-3I), Alexander County, Illinois. Technical Report 1966-1. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
71. Stuart, D. 1991 Patterns in Anasazi Archaeology A.D. 800-1300: Some New Lessons from the Past. In Proceedings of the Anasazi Symposium 1991, edited by A. Hutchinson and J. Smith, pp. 9-20. Mesa Verde Museum Association, Mesa Verde, Colorado.
72. 14C Age Calibration Program. Radiocarbon 35:215-230.
73. Tainter, J. 1988 The Collapse of Complex Societies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
74. Thomas, C. 1894 Report on the Mound Exploration of the Bureau of Ethnology. Annual Report of the American Bureau of Ethnology, Vol. 12. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
75. Van West, C. R., and J. S. Dean 2000 Environmental Characteristics of the A.D. 900-1300 Period in the Central Mesa Verde Region. Kiva 66:19-44.
76. Ward, G. K., and S. R. Wilson 1978 Procedures for Comparing and Combining Radiocarbon Age Determinations: A Critique. Archaeometry 29:19-31.
77. Webb, P. A. 1987 Excavations at the New Massilon Site (11-WY-44). Wayne County. Illinois. Research Paper No. 54. Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
78. Webb,W.S. 1952 The Jonathan Creek Village. Reports in Anthropology and Archaeology No. 8(1). University of Kentucky, Lexington.
79. Wesler, K. W. 1991 Ceramics, Chronology, and Horizon Markers at Wickliffe Mounds. American Antiquity 56:278-290.
80. Wesler, K. W.1997 The Wickliffe Mounds Project: Implications for Late Mississippi Period Chronology, Settlement and Mortuary Patterns in Western Kentucky. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 63:261-283.
81. Williams, S. 1980 The Armorel Phase: A Very Late Complex in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Bulletin 22:105-110.
82. Williams, S.1983 Some Ruminations on the Current Strategy of Research in the Southeast. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Bulletin 25:72-81.
83. Williams, S.1990 The Vacant Quarter and Other Late Events in the Lower Valley. In Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi, edited by D. H. Dye and C. A. Cox pp. 170-180. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.
84. Winters, H. D. 1981 Excavating in Museums: Notes on Mississippian Hoes and Middle Woodland Copper Gouges and Celts. In The Research Potential of Anthropological Museum Collections, edited by A. E. Cantwell, J. B. Griffin, and N. A. Rothschild, pp. 17-34. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 376, New York.