Archaeological Investigations of a Mississippian Period Production for Exchange System

查尔斯·科布博士将进行两个赛季的考古遗址 在南部米尔克里克地区的调查和挖掘 伊利诺 该地区对考古学家很重要，因为它 这里有采石场，用来开采制造锄头的石头。 从许多其他网站的发现证明，这些珍贵的 然后，对象分布在整个下俄亥俄州， 密西西比河谷。 科布医生将首先进行 对该地区进行密集的抽样调查，以获得有关 与挖掘有关的场地的种类、分布和功能 实施生产。 在工作的第二阶段，他将 挖掘一个小样本的网站，以了解如何实际生产 的工具被组织起来。 收集的材料也将 帮助确定遗址的年代， 实践遵循。 收回非本地的外汇项目， 燧石方铅矿贝壳文物和铜 关于贸易网络的信息。 虽然他们没有共同开发所有的功能 被认为是“文明”，史前晚期（约。公元900-1500年） 美国中西部的社会发展了高度的 各个群体结合在一起的社会复杂性 更大的有组织的贸易网络。 考古学家 他认为，发展之间存在着密切的联系。 社会复杂性、政治集权和贸易控制。 因为米尔克里克含有这样一种有价值的产品， 这是一个很好的地方来研究这个问题。 通过他的发掘 科布博士希望了解如何生产石锄头和 他们的交流是在当地和 区域间一级。 这项研究之所以重要，有几个原因。它将提供 深入了解复杂的社会是如何发展和维持的。 它将产生许多美国考古学家非常感兴趣的数据。

Dr. Charles Cobb will conduct two seasons of archaeological site survey and excavation in the Mill Creek region of Southern Illinois. The region is important to archeologists because it contains quarries for stone which was manufactured into hoes. Finds from numerous other sites demonstated that these prized objects were then distributed throughout the lower Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys. Dr. Cobb will first conduct an intensive sample survey of the area to obtain information on the variety, distribution and function of sites related to digging implement production. In the second stage of the work he will excavate a small sample of sites to learn how actual production of the implements was organized. Materials collected will also help to date the sites and shed light on the subsistence practices followed. Recovery of exchange items such as non-local flint, galena, shell artifacts and copper will provide information on trade networks. Although they did not develop all the features commonly attributed to "civilizations", late prehistoric (ca. 900-1500 AD) societies in the American Midwest developed a high degree of social complexity in which individual groups were bound together into larger organized trade networks. Archaeologists have postuated that a tight link exists between the development of social complexity, political centralization and control of trade. Because Mill Creek contained such a valuable product, it makes an excellent region to examine this issue. Through his excavations Dr. Cobb wishes to learn how the production of stone hoes and their exchange was organized and functioned at both a local and an interregional level. This research is important for several reasons. It will provide insight into how complex societies were developed and maintained. It will yield data of great interest to many U.S. archaeologists.