Lulu Linear Punctated: Essays in Honor of George Irving Quimby

365 Pages·1983·20.34 MB·English

by  Robert C. Dunnell, Donald K. Grayson and Walter N. Koelz

LULU LINEAR PUNCTATED:
ESSAYS IN HONOR OF GEORGE IRVING QUIMBY
George I. Quimby aboard the Hudson's Bay Company supply ship, the Fort Churchill, in
Hudson's Bay during the summer of 1939. The archaeological and geological survey that
brought Quimby here is discussed in the Introduction.
ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS
MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
NO. 72
LULU LINEAR PUNCTATED:
ESSAYS IN HONOR OF
GEORGE IRVING QUIMBY
edited by
Robert C. Dunnell
and
Donald K. Grayson
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN
1983
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CONTENTS
Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vn
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1x
Introduction
Robert C. Dunnell and Donald K. Grayson ................. .
George Irving Quimby: The Formative Years
James B. Griffin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Archaeological Theory: 1936
Albert C. Spaulding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Long Term Land Use Patterns: Some Implications
for Archaeology
Lewis R. Bin.ford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Artifact Class Richness and Sample Size in Archaeological
Surface Assemblages
George T. Jones, Donald K. Grayson, and Charlotte Beck . . . . 55
A Pan-Continental Perspective on Red Ocher and Glacial
Kame Ceremonialism
Robert L. Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Aspects of the Spatial Structure of the Mayo Site (15-J0-14),
Johnson County, Kentucky
Robert C. Dunnell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Mississippian Seen from La Tene: On Comparisons
of Prehistoric Social Disorganizations
Carl-Axel Moberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
A Quantitative Approach to Culture Change:
The Delaware Indians as an Ethnohistoric Case Study
David A. Baerreis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Rethinking the French Presence in the Upper Great Lakes
David S. Brose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
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The Role of Native Animals in the Food Economy of the
Historic Kickapoo in Central Illinois
Paul W. Parmalee and Walter E. Klippel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
The Holly Oak Shell Game: An Historic Archaeological Fraud
David J. Meltzer and William C. Sturtevant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
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ILLUSTRATIONS
Frontispiece. George I. Quimby aboard the Fort Churchill in Hudson's Bay
during the summer of 1939 ................................................. 11
McKern's 1936 crew at Red Cedar River site by Rice Lake .................... II
Spring vacation at Serpent Mound, April 1938 ................................ 14
Idealized Nunamiut economic zonation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Territory of one Nunamiut band in relation to annual ranges ................... 37
Annual ranges of Nunamiut Eskimo and G/wi Bushman in relation to
Tehuacan reconstructed "territories" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... 44
Total debitage concentration over time at Sudden Shelter ...................... 48
Class frequency structure of an assemblage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
The relationship between number of artifacts counted and numbers of
artifact classes encountered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Frequency of stone tool classes at Site 35LK84, Central Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
The Steens Mountain region, southeastern Oregon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Surface survey sampling units, Steens Mountain region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
The distribution of mapped "sites" in the Steens Mountain region ............... 63
Frequencies of stone tool classes for four Steens Mountain region
surface assemblages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
The relationship between numbers of objects counted and numbers of tool
classes present in Steens and Catlow upland samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
The relationship between numbers of objects counted and numbers of tool
classes present in Catlow lowland and Alvord upland samples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
The relationship between numbers of sherds counted and number of classes
represented in 38 ceramic assemblages from the Lower Yazoo Basin ........... 71
Bull-roarers, buzzers, turkey-tails, and sandal-sole gorgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
The turkey-tail as a bull-roarer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Orion and its symbolism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Paint Creek-Levisa confluence showing the location of the Mayo site
and nearby archaeological sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ill
Feature 9, a slanting rock grave ............................................ 119
A well preserved paired hearth feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Nearly intact house from the northeastern section of the Mayo site . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Plan of the Woodside component at the Mayo site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
SYMAP of all prehistoric artifacts .......................................... 135
SYMAP of all Woodside vessel sherds ...................................... 137
SYMAP of all lithic material ............................................... 138
SYMAP of Woodside projectile points ...................................... 139
SYMAP of bone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
SYMAP of shell-tempered cordmarked ceramics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
SYMAP of shell-tempered roughened ceramics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
SYMAP of shell-tempered plain ceramics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
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Six cluster RELOCATE of functional variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Six cluster GRPING using stylistic variables ................................. 150
Six cluster average-link grouping of stylistic variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Radial model of the distribution of functional feature classes .................. 154
T-test values comparing radial distance means for functional feature classes ..... 156
Comparison of mean radial distances of selected functional artifact classes
and feature classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Map of the northern Lake Michigan basin showing locations mentioned
in the text .............................................................. 212
Dunn Farm Plateau site (20Lu58) ........................................... 214
Dunn Farm (20Lu22) and Plateau (20Lu58) sites: topography and
excavation unit locations ................................................. 215
Dunn Farm Plateau site aboriginal ceramic and groundstone artifacts .......... 219
Dunn Farm Plateau site rimsherd profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Dunn Farm Plateau site chipped stone artifacts .............................. 224
Dunn Farm Plateau site European trade goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Cast brass "Jesuit" ring from unit 2c ........................................ 233
Examples of bone and tooth artifacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Examples of bone pathology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Bone fragments exhibiting puncture marks from chewing, probably by dogs . . . . . 288
Examples of cut marks on white-tailed deer antler and skull sections . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Engraving on the Holly Oak pendant and the La Madeleine engraving ......... 330
The La Madeleine engraving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Photograph by F. W. Putnam in 1890 of La Madeleine engraving, Lenape
stone, Holly Oak pendant drawn and photographed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
The Holly Oak and La Madeleine mammoths compared with other French
Paleolithic depictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
The assemblage purportedly from the Holly Oak site, as photographed
in 1889 or 1890 ......................................................... 337
Hilborne T. Cresson, April 1868 ............................................ 340
In camp at Turner Group, Ohio, 1890: Ernest Yolk, Marshall Saville,
Hilborne T. Cresson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
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TABLES
Demographic expectations for designated regions assuming a Nunamiut
type of system of land use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Correlation coefficients (Pearson's r) between tool counts and number
of tool classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Fort Ancient house size and shape ........... : .............................. 133
Radial data for feature classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Radial data for selected artifact classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Variability in the use of La Tene, Western and Central Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Spatial variability in Mississippian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Delaware purchases at trading posts compared with non-Indian purchases at
Kaskaskia, Illinois . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Percentages of purchases according to major categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Seasonal distribution of Delaware purchases from Menard and Valle at
the James Fork, White River, Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Sales of furs and skins in 1829-31 by the Delawares to Menard and Valle
on the James Fork of White River, Missouri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Aboriginal ceramics from the Dunn Farm Plateau site ........................ 218
Lithic debitage from 22Lu58 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Metric attributes of Dunn Plateau chipped stone projectile points,
knives, and bifaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Some summary statistics for contact period upper Great Lakes chipped
stone triangular points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Dunn Farm Plateau site glass beads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Estimated pounds of meat and caloric values for Rhoads site animals . . . . . . . . . . 261
Age distribution of deer (percentage of each grouping) from the Rhoads site . . . . 289
Rhoads site deer elements, number of pieces, and approximate percentage
of each with cuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Species, numbers, and estimated meat weights of Rhoads site freshwater
mussels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
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