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- Title
Orwell: A Plains Middle Woodland Burial Component in Western Minnesota.
- Authors
Gibbon, Guy
- Abstract
Two characteristics of the Plains Middle Woodland period in the northeastern Plains (c. 100 B.C.-A.D. 600) are a mobile bison hunting way of life and the distinctive Sonota burial mound complex. Famous for the presence of partially articulated bison skeletons as burial inclusions, the Sonota Complex exhibits strong interregional connections with the Besant phase to the west and the Hopewell ritual/exchange network to the southeast. Burial mounds at Orwell, with uncalibrated 14C dates of A.D. 400 ± 100 and 530 ± 100, seem to represent a late, attenuated phase of that complex. If this interpretation is correct, Orwell provides an important glimpse of burial ritual in the northeastern Plains at the Plains Middle/Late Woodland interface.
- Subjects
MINNESOTA; INTERMENT; MOUNDS (Archaeology); AMERICAN bison hunting; PLAINS; FUNERALS
- Publication
Minnesota Archaeologist, 2008, Vol 67, p106
- ISSN
0026-5403
- Publication type
Article