Post by UKarchaeology on Nov 11, 2015 19:15:59 GMT
The Mississippian period represents one of the most momentous cultural transitions in eastern North America.
Beginning around A.D. 1000, people began to live in large, sedentary communities supported by the intensive cultivation of maize.
Southern Ohio’s Fort Ancient culture was at the periphery of the Mississippian world, but it was part of this cultural revolution nonetheless.
Did indigenous Ohioans adopt the Mississippian agenda independently and only gradually develop a dependence on maize? Or did Mississippian missionaries come to the Ohio Valley and inspire an abrupt shift to the new ways of life?
In the September issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, archaeologists Robert Cook of Ohio State University and Douglas Price of the University of Wisconsin-Madison report the results of their analyses of the relative proportions of different isotopes of carbon and strontium in the teeth of human remains excavated from six Fort Ancient culture sites in southwestern Ohio and a site in southeastern Indiana.
Full story: www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2015/10/25/1-did-missionaries-influence-earliest-ohioans.html
Beginning around A.D. 1000, people began to live in large, sedentary communities supported by the intensive cultivation of maize.
Southern Ohio’s Fort Ancient culture was at the periphery of the Mississippian world, but it was part of this cultural revolution nonetheless.
Did indigenous Ohioans adopt the Mississippian agenda independently and only gradually develop a dependence on maize? Or did Mississippian missionaries come to the Ohio Valley and inspire an abrupt shift to the new ways of life?
In the September issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science, archaeologists Robert Cook of Ohio State University and Douglas Price of the University of Wisconsin-Madison report the results of their analyses of the relative proportions of different isotopes of carbon and strontium in the teeth of human remains excavated from six Fort Ancient culture sites in southwestern Ohio and a site in southeastern Indiana.
Full story: www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2015/10/25/1-did-missionaries-influence-earliest-ohioans.html