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- Title
GETTING HIGH : CHARTIERS VALLEY MONONGAHELA AND THE TROUBLESOME 14TH CENTURY.
- Authors
George, Richard L.
- Abstract
A number of papers and publications offer explanations for the high incidence of upland locations for Monongahela village sites in the Upper Ohio Valley. Defense, proximity of trails, excellent vantage points, and access to productive soils are among the reasons championed by various investigators. This paper argues that defense was the primary reason for the selection of upland loci for villages. Also examined is the high percentage of Monongahela village sites that were stockaded compared to other contemporary cultures in northeastern North America. An influx of an alien population into the Upper Ohio Valley before A.D. 1100 is suggested to explain the village stockading phenomenon. The Drew Phase people of Monongahela are nominated as the likely "invaders" because of an apparent absence of a stylistic base for the relatively elaborate pottery that is the defining marker for the phase. A major shift of Monongahela sites to higher elevations took place during the, 14th century A.D. Thereafter, and until the effects of European expansionism were felt in the 1600s; upland location became the adaptive norm for the Monongahela.
- Subjects
MONONGAHELA River Valley (W. Va. &; Pa.); OHIO River Valley; WEST Virginia; PENNSYLVANIA; OHIO; VILLAGES; MONONGAHELA (North American people); UPLANDS
- Publication
Archaeology of Eastern North America, 1995, Vol 23, p27
- ISSN
0360-1021
- Publication type
Article