Northeast Subsistence-Settlement Change: A.D. 700 –1300
Northeast Subsistence-Settlement Change: A.D. 700 –1300
Northeast Subsistence-Settlement Change: A.D. 700 –1300
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Table 4.4. Available Cultigen Data for the Sandusky Tradition.<br />
SITE PHASE DOMESTICATES REFERENCES<br />
ASSOCIATION Zea mays Phaseolus vulgaris<br />
kernals cupules cob whole peduncles<br />
fragments cobs<br />
Bear Fort L. 7 Eiden present Stothers, Abel, and Schneider 1998<br />
White Fort Eiden present Redmond 1999<br />
Anderson Eiden/Wolf present Shane 1981<br />
Crown Eiden/Wolf 8.2g 58.46g 745.2g (8 &10 r.) Abel and Stothers 1998<br />
Pearson North Eiden/Wolf 6 (8 r.) Bowen 1983<br />
Bear Fort L. 3 Eiden/Wolf 2.5g .4g 3g Stothers, Abel, and Schneider 1998<br />
Williams Wolf 6.2g 31 (6, 8, 10 r.) Yarnell 1974; Fecteau 1978<br />
Williams Wolf 43 Yarnell 1974; Fecteau 1978<br />
Wright Wolf 3 this report<br />
Dodge Wolf Yarnell 1974<br />
Cemetery Ridge Wolf 4.6g .4g .5g present Abel, Koralewski, and Demuth 2000<br />
Petersen Wolf 1260.8g .9g 33.2g (8 r.) .2g 13g Abel 1995<br />
Pearson South Late Wolf 30g. 50g. present (8 r.) 1 Stothers and Abel 1989; Bowen 1979<br />
Jenkins Late Wolf 2 this report<br />
decoration and body treatment becomes increasingly<br />
smoothed throughout the Eiden and early Wolf phases.<br />
Mixter Ware is commonly associated with triangular<br />
Madison points, small “miniature celts,” humpbacked<br />
or bifacial snub-nosed scrapers, and a rich bone tool<br />
inventory. Maize is abundant in Eiden and Wolf phase<br />
village contexts (Table 4.4) (Abel 1995; Stothers et al.<br />
1994).<br />
The settlement patterns of the Eiden and early Wolf<br />
phases are believed to characterize a transition from<br />
seasonally mobile to semipermanent village life (cf.<br />
Stothers et al. 1994). The Eiden phase (A.D. 1000-1250)<br />
settlement pattern is also poorly known, but a continuation<br />
of the Green Creek phase settlement pattern is<br />
predicted. There appears to be no intense settlement of<br />
the Sandusky Bay area during this phase. Rather, warm<br />
weather settlements may have shifted farther upriver<br />
to areas less prone to flooding. It is during the Eiden<br />
phase that agricultural hamlets become the primary<br />
warm weather settlement mode. Unfortified warm<br />
weather hamlets for the Eiden phase may be illustrated<br />
by the excavated Mixter site in the Huron River<br />
Valley (Shane 1967) and the north component of the<br />
Pearson site complex in the Green Creek estuary<br />
(Stothers and Abel 1989), while there have been several<br />
riverine sites in the Sandusky River Valley that have<br />
revealed surface and limited subsurface evidence of<br />
Eiden phase occupation.<br />
Toward the end of the Eiden phase and the beginning<br />
of the subsequent Wolf phase (A.D. 1250-1450),<br />
examples of both unfortified and fortified hamlets can<br />
be illustrated. The Dillon and Mixter sites (Prufer and<br />
Shane 1976), on high bluffs overlooking the Huron<br />
River; the Crown (Abel and Stothers 1998) and Bear<br />
Fort sites (Stothers et al. 1998a), located on high bluffs<br />
overlooking the Sandusky River; and the Williams site<br />
(Stothers and Conway 1983), located on a lower terrace<br />
overlooking the Maumee River, all have received<br />
extensive archaeological excavation and appear to represent<br />
unfortified warm weather agricultural hamlets.<br />
The Anderson (Shane 1981), Cemetery Ridge (Abel et<br />
al. 2000), and Eiden sites (McKenzie and Blank 1976;<br />
McKenzie et al. 1972) have received extensive archaeological<br />
excavation and appear to represent fortified<br />
hamlets or seasonal villages associated with the early<br />
Wolf phase (cf. Abel 1995).<br />
As with Eiden phase settlement little is known of<br />
burial patterns. A large cemetery was documented by<br />
excavations of the middle component at the Pearson<br />
Complex to consist of both Eiden and probably Wolf<br />
phase burials (Stothers and Abel 1989). Eiden phase<br />
burials were identified by their association with<br />
88 Stothers and Abel