Confounding  Ceramic  Typologies:    

Creating  a  Resource  for  the  Glenn  A.  Black  Laboratory’s  

Type  Collections  

Leslie E. Drane AGSA 9th Symposium

Cahokia’s  Monks  Mound

Emerald  Mound  Site

Emerald  Mound  Site  (2015)  

Emerald  Mound  Site  (2015)  

Some  major  cultural  areas  of  the  Mississippian  world  at  approximately  A.D.  1000-­‐‑1600

Image  from  TBH  –  University  of  Texas

The  John  Chapman  Site  (11JD12)  

Images  from  Millhouse  (2012:  43,  58)  

Image  from  Fort  Polk  Cultural  Resources  Webpage

Type  Collection  Drawers  at  the  GBL  

Example:   The  drawer  will  be  labeled,  “Yankeetown;  page  25”  

•  Information about the ceramic type

•  Photograph

•  Rim drawing

•  Map showing distribution area

Image  from  Alt  et  al.  (2011:13).  

Yankeetown  Rim  

Photo  from  hap://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/cahokia.html  

Powell  Plain

Ramey  Incised

Image  from  museum.stat.il.us.html  

A  Timucua  ceremony  involving  black  drink  as  depicted  by  Jacques  le  Moyne  (16th  c.)    

Image  from  Dick  (1955:43)  

Image  from  Pauketat  &  Emerson  (1991:934)

Acknowledgements   •  I would like to give a special thanks to:

o  the Glenn A. Black Laboratory (and the Summer Fellowship)

o  April Sievert o  Susan Alt o  Dru McGill o Cheryl Munson o  Meghan Buchanan o  Tony Krus o  Jayne-Leigh Thomas o  Savannah Leach o  and of course, Cassie Qualls

Works  Cited •  Alt, Susan M.

o  N.D. (Submitted) Connecting the Dots: Yankeetown, Cahokia and Angel. Submitted to the volume Indiana Archaeology edited by Timothy Baumann. University of Indiana Press.

•  Alt, Susan M., Meghan Buchanan, and Elizabeth Watts o  2011 Looking for Yankeetown in Posey County, Indiana. Indiana Archaeology. 6 (1): 12-23.

•  Alt, Susan M. and Timothy R. Pauketat o  2007 Sex and the Southern Cult. In Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Chronology, Content, Context, edited

by A. King. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa.   •  Crown, Patricia L., Thomas E. Emerson, Jiyan Gu, W. Jeffrey Hurst, Timothy R. Pauketat, and Timothy Ward

o  2012 Ritual Black Drink Consumption at Cahokia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.109 (35).

•  Dick, G.C. o  1955 Incised pottery decorations from Cahokia, A Middle Mississippi Site in Western Illinois. Missouri Archaeologist

17(4): 36-48. •  Garniewicz, Rexford C., Michelle Greenan, and Colin Graham

o  2009 Archaeological Investigations at the Yankeetown Site (12W1). Report submitted to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis. As cited by Alt, Susan M., Meghan Buchanan, and Elizabeth Watts 2011 Looking for Yankeetown in Posey County, Indiana. Indiana Archaeology. 6 (1): 12-23.  

•  Hall, Robert L. o  1997  An Archaeology of the Soul: North American Indian Belief and Ritual. Urbana and Chicago: University of

Illinois Press. •  Miller, Jessica R.

o  2015 Interior Carbonization Patterns as Evidence of Ritual Drink Preparation in Powell Plain and Ramey Incised Vessels. American Antiquity 80(1): 170-183.

•  Pauketat, T. R. and T. E. Emerson o  1991 Ideology of Authority and the Power of the Pot. American Anthropologist 93(4):919-941.

•  Redmond, B. o  1990 The Yankeetown Phase: Emergent Mississippian Cultural Adaptation in the Lower Ohio River Valley. Ph.D.

Thesis, Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington.