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Ceramic Sequence in Central Basin and Hopewell Sites in Central Illinois

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Elaine Bluhm
Elaine Bluhm*
Affiliation:
Chicago Natural History Museum, Chicago, Illinois
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The Morton Focus of the Central Basin Phase, or simply Central Basin, is a Woodland assemblage found in central Illinois. There has been a good deal of controversy concerning the relationship of Central Basin and Hopewell since the two were described (Cole and Deuel, 1937, pp. 222-3). Some believed the two were so much alike that perhaps they were the same thing, Central Basin being a poor Hopewellian village group; others believed there was no overlap, but a clean break between them. Most of this controversy was based on ceramic material and the absence of Hopewellian burial mound traits in association with Central Basin pottery. Cole and Deuel (1937, p. 203) said

Aside from the diagnostic traits, the balance of the artifacts found in Hopewellian sites seem to belong to the Central Basin Phase of the Woodland Pattern. Most of the knives and projectile points are of Type 1 and only differ from Central Basin in being, on the whole, better made.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , April 1951 , pp. 324 - 329
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1951

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References

Bluhm, Elaine A. 1948. “An Analysis of the Boulder Sites, a Study of Early Hopewell Occupation in Illinois.” Unpublished Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago.Google Scholar
Cole, Fay-Cooper and Deuel, Thorne 1937. Rediscovering Illinois, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar