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A Revised Classification of the Prehistoric Cultures of Minnesota

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Lloyd A. Wilford
Lloyd A. Wilford*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn
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In the first classification of the prehistoric cultures of Minnesota (Wilford 1941), no attempt was made to present a chronological sequence, though some temporal relationships were indicated. Since that time the efforts of archaeologists in all parts of the eastern United States in excavating sites and in reporting the results, in pooling their knowledge at regional conferences, and in constructing and publishing cultural sequences for regions and for the entire area, have crystallized in a framework in which the 3 major cultural groupings, the patterns, have been fitted into a chronological sequence of 4 periods. It is now possible to place the Minnesota cultures in this framework with a fair degree of confidence. Table 6 presents this placement in terms of the categories of the Midwestern Taxonomic System.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , October 1955 , pp. 130 - 142
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1955

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