The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Aztalan Project Excavations in Aztalan's Riverbank Midden

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Aztalan Project Excavations in Aztalan’s Riverbank Midden: A Record of Material Culture Jennifer Picard, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee References Cited Arzigian, Constance 1985 Paleoethnobotany of the Aztalan and Fred Edwards Sites: Late Woodland and Middle Mississippian Interaction in Southern Wisconsin. Paper presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Colorado, 1985. Barrett, Samuel A. 1933 Ancient Aztalan. Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 13. Birmingham, R. A. and L. Goldstein 2005 Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town. Wisconsin Historical Society Press, Madison. Gilmore, Melvin R. 1977 Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region. University of Nebraka Press, Lincoln. Goldstein, L. 1999 Aztalan State Park (47-JE-0001) Archaeological Excavations 1919-1996 (map). Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Madison. King, Francis B. 1985 Archaeological Remains From Feature 6 of the 1984 Excavations at Aztalan. Letter report on file at the Archaeological Research Laboratory of the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Parmalee, P.W. 1960 Animal Remains from the Aztalan Site, Jefferson County, Wisconsin. Wisconsin Archeologist 41:1-10. Pauketat, Timothy R., Lucretia S. Kelly, Gayle J. Fritz, Neal H. Lopinot, Scott Elias, and Eve Hargrave 2002 The Residues of Feasting and Public Ritual at Early Cahokia. American Antiquity 67(2):257-279. Richards, John D. 1985 Aztalan Compilation, Mapping and Excavations. In Southeastern Wisconsin Archaeology Project: 1984-85, Report of Investigations No. 81, edited by L. Goldstein, pp. 63-109. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Archaeological Research Laboratory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. 1992 Ceramics and Culture at Aztalan, A Late Prehistoric Village in Southeast Wisconsin. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. 2007 Context and Process: Red-Slipped Pottery in Cahokia's Northern Hinterlands. Illinois Archaeology 19:1-26. Warwick, Matthew C. 2002 Diachronic Study of Animal Exploitation at Aztalan: A Late Prehistoric Village in Southeast Wisconsin. Unpublished MS thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Watson, Robert J. 2005 The Creation of Space and Place at Cahokia: Mound 72, Mound 96 and the Mound 72 Precinct. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. .

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