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Pottery from the Ozark Bluff Shelters 1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

S. C. Dellinger  and
S. D. Dickinson
S. C. Dellinger
Affiliation:
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
S. D. Dickinson
Affiliation:
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas
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The Ozark Uplift of northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri has been a fertile field for archaeological investigation. Natural conditions have greatly facilitated research here, for despite the humidity of the region, there are numerous dry shelters or caves formed by the weathering of shale beds beneath limestone strata in bluffs along White River, its tributaries, and the Cowskin River. Debris, burials, and pictographs show that the Indians had used the shelters as combined homes, cemeteries, and places for ceremonials. In contrast to village sites in the lowlands of Arkansas, the bluff shelters afford more than a fragmentary picture of Indian life. Here, the burials are complemented by remains fortuitously preserved through absence of moisture, and the entire cave floor is comparable to the middens of the lowlands. The archaeological materials illustrate the complete life cycle of the aborigines. Cradleboards and burial wrappings, foodstuff and human feces all contribute to a reconstruction of Bluff-Dweller life.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , January 1942 , pp. 276 - 289
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1942

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Footnotes

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Research paper Number 715, Journal Series of the University of Arkansas. Prepared with the assistance of Work Projects Administration Official Project No. 665-63-3-170.

References

2 Dellinger, 1936, pp. 197–214. Bibliography, see pp. 311–318 of this journal.

3 Gilmore, 1932, p. 16.

4 Wakefield and Dellinger, 1936, pp. 1412–1418.

5 Moorehead, 1931, p. 24.

6 Harrington, M. R., 1924, p. 4.

7 Gilmore, 1930, p. 91.

8 Sayles,1935, Table 10.

9 Harrington, M. R., 1924, p, 12.

10 Ibid.

11 Ibid., p. 19.

12 Harrington, M. R., 1924, p. 12.

13 Lemley, 1936; Dickinson, 1936, pp. 25–69.

14 Dickinson and Lemley, 1939, pp. 139–189.

15 Dellingerand Dickinson, 1940, pp. 133–147.

16 Lemley and Dickinson, 1937, pp. 11–47.

17 Dickinson and Dellinger, 1940, p. 96.

l8 Ridgway, 1912.

19 Ibid.

20 Holmes, 1903, pp. 69–71.

21 Ford, 1936, p. 146.

22 Newkumet, 1940, p. 6.

23 Dickinson, 1936, p. 62.

24 Dickinson and Lemley, 1939, p. 162.

25 Harrington, M. R., 1924, PI. 11c.

26 Lemley, 1936, p. 224.

27 Ford, 1936, p. 224.

28 Ford and Willey, 1939, No. 3, p. 7.

29 Dickinson and Lemley, 1939, Pl. 37c.

30 Ibid., Pl. 37d.

31 Ibid., PI. 40f.

32 Lemley, 1936, PI. 8, 2 and 3.

33 Dickinson and Lemley, 1939, p. 158.

34 Newkumet, 1940, pp. 5–6, Pis. 3 and 3–A.

35 Ridgway, 1912.

36 Lemley, 1936, Pl. 8, 5.

37 Ford, 1935, p. 27.

38 Lemley, 1936, p. 33.

39 Dickinson, 1936, p. 62.

40 Dellinger and Dickinson, 1940, pp. 133–147.

41 Shepard, 1936, p. 553.

42 Ridgway, 1912.

43 Wedel, 1936, p. 70.

44 Bell, 1936, p. 179, Fig. 13.

45 Wedel, 1936, p. 68.

46 Webb and Funkhouser, 1936, p. 139.

47 Setzler, 1940, p. 255.

48 Wissler, 1940, p. 22.

49 Webb and Funkhouser, 1936, p. 165.

50 We have only studied illustrations of the Kentucky materials.

51 Setzler, 1940, p. 259.

52 Harrington, M. R., 1924, p. 19.

53 Strong, 1934, p. 284.

54 Griffin, 1937, p. 297.

55 Ibid.