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- Title
HEALTH AND DIET AT THE DRDA SITE (11MS32), MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS.
- Authors
YU DONG; HEDMAN, KRISTIN M.; HARGRAVE, EVE A.
- Abstract
Human skeletal remains from multiple individuals were found within Feature 5, Burial 1 at the Drda site (11MS32), Madison County, Illinois, during the 1979 Phase II survey by archaeologists from Illinois State University. This article expands upon a preliminary osteological analysis by Shaw and Nickels (1985), resulting in a reassessment of the demographic composition of the sample and of the pathological conditions experienced by these individuals. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of select elements is used to make inferences about the diet of those individuals, such as evidence of maize and protein consumption. Radiocarbon dates derived from bone collagen indicate a temporal affiliation of Terminal Late Woodland (formerly Emergent Mississippian) (A.D. 900-1050). The Terminal Late Woodland is associated with significant population movement in the American Bottom and immediately precedes the rise of the Cahokian polity (see Fortier and McElrath 2002).
- Subjects
MADISON County (Ill.); ILLINOIS; ARCHAEOLOGICAL human remains; CARBON isotopes; ILLINOIS State University
- Publication
Illinois Archaeology: Journal of the Illinois Archaeology Survey, 2010, Vol 22, Issue 2, p668
- ISSN
1050-8244
- Publication type
Article