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Check-Stamped Pottery on the Northern and Central Great Plains*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert W. Neuman
Robert W. Neuman*
Affiliation:
Missouri Basin Project, Lincoln, Nebraska
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Abstract

Check-stamped potsherds have been found at 50 sites on the Plains, and a check-stamped paddle of bone is reported from one site. These sites are found in a large area that extends from central Kansas northward into Saskatchewan and from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains to eastern North Dakota. The sites have been attributed by various writers to the Blackfoot, Crow, Hidatsa, Cree, Mandan, Pawnee, Ponca, Wichita, and Kansa. In most of these sites the check-stamped potsherds have a low frequency, and only at a few Hidatsa and Mandan sites do they predominate. As all check-stamped pottery from this area is assignable to the period of A.D. 1500 to 1845, check-stamped specimens may be used as diagnostic artifacts for the late prehistoric and early historic period.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , July 1963 , pp. 17 - 26
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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Submitted with the permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

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