THE USE OF DOVER-LIKE TOOL STONE BY PRE-MISSISSIPPIAN PEOPLES IN THE BLACK BOTTOM OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- PARISH, RYAN M.; BUTLER, BRIAN M.
- Source
- Illinois Archaeology: Journal of the Illinois Archaeology Survey. 2015, Vol. 27, p118-137. 20p.
- Subject
- *CHERT
*PREHISTORIC peoples
*PHYSIOGRAPHIC provinces
*OUTCROPS (Geology)
- Language
- ISSN
- 1050-8244
The presence of Dover chert artifacts at the Mississippian Kincaid site was established in the 1930s and recent work has shown that Dover, or something very much like it, was being brought into the Black Bottom as early as the late Middle Archaic. There has been a growing concern that some of what has been traditionally identified as Dover chert in the Kincaid area is actually a variety of Fort Payne chert. Samples of Dover-like chert from Archaic and late Early-to-Middle Woodland (Baumer) components at Kincaid have been tested for geological provenance, and the results suggest that a preference for local Fort Payne chert existed during both occupations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]