Journal of the Iowa Archeological Society
Volume 46, 1999
Joe B. Thompson and Colleen E. Vaughn, Editors
Pottery pipes with noded, knobbed, or "coffee-bean" surfaces have been found in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Several of these pipes probably were made late in the Late Woodland period, ca. A.D. 700-1000. Similar pipes from New York State and the Southeast were made during this period and slightly later. The pipes apparently depict ears of corn. Corn became important in the Eastern Woodlands at the time the pipes were made, and use of the pipes may have been associated with corn-related rituals.
Recent archeological studies at the Packwood site in central Iowa produced evidence of early Late Woodland occupations on the Intermediate Terrace complex within the Des Moines River valley. In this paper, summary technical data gleaned from the contract completion report (Thompson 1999) is presented.
Coupling results of the data analysis presented in the previous article with spatial analysis, the community patterns at the Packwood site will be examined in the following paper. To open this study, a brief overview of theoretical considerations guiding the spatial analysis will be presented followed by discussion of the two most archeologically visible Late Woodland occupations on the terrace. The paper concludes with a short summation of Late Woodland lifeways at 13PK46.
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