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Time Perspective within the Coalescent Tradition in South Dakota*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
Abstract
Six sites attributable to the Coalescent tradition in the Fort Randall and Big Bend reservoir areas of South Dakota are arranged in a seriation indicative of their temporal relationships on the basis of the popularities of certain pottery types and the presence or absence of European trade goods. Three sites fall within the prehistoric segment of the continuum, ca. A.D. 1500-1700, and three in the protohistoric segment, ca, 1700-1750. It is postulated that the sites were occupied by Arikara prior to their movement upriver to join others of the same tribal affiliation after invasion of the region by the Dakota. Certain ceramic types are proposed as time markers and sequences are revised in the light of new data.
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This is a revised and expanded version of a paper, entitled “Additional Information on Time Perspective within the Coalescent Tradition in South Dakota,” read in August, 1962, at the XXXV International Congress of Americanists, Mexico City.
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