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Examination of Plains Middle Woodland Community Networking Dynamics through Ceramic Analysis: A Dual Geochemistry Approach
Day, Zachary Robert
Day, Zachary Robert
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The Plains Middle Woodland communities of Kansas, the Kansas City Hopewell (KCH), is the western-most center of the Hopewell culture. Community networking for KCH is suggested to have focused on populations interactions with eastern Hopewell communities in the Illinois-valley, based in part on similar ceramic designs. Recent research into KCH chronology has refined timelines for KCH sites and suggests that similarities in ceramic design occurred contemporaneously with eastern Hopewell communities, such as the Havana Hopewell. Additionally, a focused ceramic typological study has suggested a greater influence of southern Hopewell groups, such as the Marksville, on ceramic decorative designs for Plains Middle Woodland community ceramics. This dissertation research is conducted to gain a better fundamental understanding of interaction networks for Plains Middle Woodland communities through an examination of ceramic origins. Focused on sourcing the clay used to construct ceramic sherds at Middle Woodland sites in eastern Kansas and central Missouri, minimally destructive X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) analyses are applied to examine ceramic mobility between communities. By establishing regional and local scale connections between sites, a better understanding of interaction and networking dynamics can be achieved.
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2020-12-31
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University of Kansas
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Archaeology, Geochemistry, Ceramics, Interaction, Middle Woodland, Plains, X-Ray Diffraction, X-Ray Fluorescence