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The Birdwood Culture of the West-Central Plains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John W. Garrett*
Affiliation:
Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, Nebraska

Abstract

A new late-ceramic culture in the west-central Plains is defined on the basis of recent investigations and early scattered references in the literature. This Birdwood culture, which is dated about A.D. 1600, is characterized by river-edge sites that yield thin-walled, sparsely sand-tempered, incised pottery.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1965

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