Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society
Volume 45, 1998
K. Kris Hirst, Editor
The Brainerd site (47WN289), an Oneota burial site in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, was partially excavated between 1983 and 1986 as a salvage effort. Deep plowing in the early 1980s disturbed the previously unknown cemetery. This report describes the site, the burials, and the recovered artifacts.
This report presents the analysis of over 21,000 rim and body sherds recovered from recent excavations at the Phipps National Historic Landmark site. This assemblage is typical of Mill Creek ceramics. Several theories regarding midden formation in Mill Creek sites are reviewed in the context of the larger Mill Creek culture settlement system. The distributional analysis of the ceramics supports the current interpretation of rapid, incremental midden development of Mill Creek sites (Fishel 1966).
The Chally-Turbenson site (21FL-71) is an extensive complex of chert acquisition loci, workshop locations, and prehistoric habitation areas that occupies an area of dissected upland in the upper Root River drainage in western Fillmore County, Minnesota. The site was reported as a result of the Phase I and Phase II investigations undertaken for the Minnesota Department of Transportation by the Minnesota Historical Society to determine the effects of a construction project along U.S. Highway 63. It consists of a series of activity areas, marked by concentrations of artifacts, that are separated by areas containing few or no artifacts. Data recovery was undertaken by the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center during the summer of 1995. Lag deposits containing large quantities of chert cobbles are present near the ground surface in the vicinity of the site. A distinctive opaque brown to yellowish brown chert, here called "Root River Residual" chert, was the preferred material for chipped stone manufacture. The investigations at the Chally-Turbenson site recovered large quantities of chipping debris, but relatively few diagnostic artifacts. The Chally-Turbenson site appears to have been repeatedly visited by prehistoric peoples throughout most of the Holocene. A few projectile points associated with the Late Paleoindian, Early Archaic, Middle Archaic, Late Archaic, and Late Woodland stages have been recovered from the site. Middle and Late Woodland occupations are indicated by the recovery of grit-tempered potsherds. Three radiocarbon dates obtained during the Phase III investigations reflect Late Woodland and, possibly, late prehistoric activity. A comparative trace element study of chert samples from the site, as well as the Grand Meadow quarry and Cochrane chert sources in western Wisconsin, indicated several unresolved problems with regional chert type sourcing and terminology.
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