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The Caneadea Mound: a Look at the Middle Woodland Period in the Northeast THE CANEADEA MOUND: A LOOK AT THE MIDDLE WOODLAND PERIOD IN THE NORTHEAST A Thesis Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Steven Paul Howard, B.A. * * * * * The Ohio State University 2005 Master's Examination Committee: Dr. William S. Dancey, Adviser Approved by Dr. Kristen J. Gremillion Dr. Paul Sciulli w~ Graduate Program in Anthropology \ Copyright by Steven Paul Howard 2005 ABSTRACT The results of the excavation of the Caneadea Mound in the Genesee Valley of southwestern New York State are presented and compared to similar sites across the Northeast. A comparative analysis is used to develop a framework hypothesis for further testing to determine the relationship of the Northeast mound building peoples to each other and to the contemporaneous Ohio Hopewell with whom they have been conventionally affiliated. The analysis provides at least four hypothetical local northeastern traditions in the Middle Woodland period, all participating to various degrees in a network of exchange commonly referred to as the Hopewell Interaction Sphere. Evidence suggests that this exchange network had developed prior to the Middle Woodland period, and that the northeastern mound building traditions are local developments with little influence from Ohio Hopewell. ii Dedicated to Mavis Tucker 111 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to thank my adviser, Dr. William Dancey, for his generous guidance and patience through the process of writing this thesis. I am grateful to Dr. Kristen Gremillion for her comments and suggestions, and Dr. Paul Sciulli for his help with statistics. I am indebted to Mike Roets and Dr. Sarunas Milisauskas at the University at Buffalo for the opportunity to research the Caneadea Mound data on file there. I also wish to acknowledge the late Dr. Marian White, who had the foresight to gather what data was available from the excavation of the Caneadea Mound. lV VITA October 10, 1970 ................... Born - Olean, New York 2001 ............................. B.A. Anthropology, State University of New York, College at Geneseo 2001 - 2003 ....................... Field Technician, University at Buffalo Archaeological Survey 2003 ............................. Archaeologist, Heritage Preservation and Interpretation 2004 - present ..................... Graduate Teaching Associate, The Ohio State University FIELDS OF STUDY Major Field: Anthropology Sub-fields: Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany v TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Abstract .............................................................. ii Dedication ........................................................... .iii Acknowledgments ..................................................... iv Vita ................................................................. v L1st. o ff"1gures. v111... List of Tables ......................................................... ix Sections: Introduction . 1 Natural Setting .................................................. 1 Cultural Chronology .............................................. 4 Previous Research ................................................ 9 Mound Excavation ..................................................... 15 Mound Structure ................................................ 19 Features ....................................................... 22 Radiocarbon Date ................................................27 Artifacts ....................................................... 2 7 VI Analysis and Discussion ................................................ 38 Conclusion .....................................................43 Bibliography ......................................................... 46 Vll LIST OF FIGURES Page 1. Chronology of aouthwestern New York Prehistory. Adapted from Ritchie (1969). (* = contested; ** = not defined) .............................. 5 2. Northeastern mound locations and hypothetical mound clusters (Howard 2005). 11 3. Contour map of excavated portion of Caneadea Mound. Points A through J triangulated from datum points. Adapted from White (n.d.) ............... 17 4. Profile AB, Caneadea Mound. Adapted from White (n.d.) ................20 5. Profiles HI and IF, Caneadea Mound. Adapted from White (n.d.) .......... 21 Vlll LIST OF TABLES Page 1. Features and artifacts from the Caneadea Mound. Depth is measured from surface. Unk. = unknown, no measurement available; P = present; A = absent; F = feature ........................................... 18 2. Percentages of mounds within Northeast clusters containing certain burial treatments. Presence of burial treatments in the Caneadea Mound and those treatments present prior to the Middle Woodland period are noted for reference. Percentage figures represent proportions of mounds with available data within each cluster. P = present; A = absent; N = total number of mounds with available data ...................................... 26 3. Projectile points from the Caneadea Mound. Unk. =unknown, no measurement available. Measurements are maximum values in millimeters .. .30 4. Ground and polished slate artifacts from the Caneadea Mound. Measurements are maximum values in millimeters. * Broken pendant modified into a gorget. ............................................31 5. Platform pipes from the Caneadea Mound. Measurements are maximum values in millimeters ..............................................32 6. Mica artifacts from the Caneadea Mound. Unk. = unknown, no measurement available; P = present; A = absent. Measurements are in millimeters.* Eight-rayed star cut-out. ...............................34 7. Stone celts from the Caneadea Mound. Unk. =unknown, no measurement available. Measurements are maximum values in millimeters. * Unfinished .. 36 8. Percentages of mounds within Northeast clusters containing Hopewell Interaction Sphere (HIS) raw materials, ordered after Seeman (1979). HIS raw materials present in the Caneadea Mound and those raw materials present in the Northeast prior to the Middle Woodland period are noted for reference. Percentage figures represent proportions of mounds with available data within each cluster. P =present; A= absent; N =total number of mounds with available data. * Does not include vessel fragments, which are present since the Late Archaic period ................................ .40 IX 9. Percentages of mounds within Northeast clusters containing Hopewell Interaction Sphere (HIS) artifacts, ordered after Seeman (1979). HIS artifacts present in the Caneadea mound and those artifacts present in the Northeast prior to the Middle Woodland period are noted for reference. Also included for reference are common non-HIS artifacts. Percentage figures represent proportions of mounds with available data within each cluster. P = present; A = absent; N = total number of mounds with available data. * Elbow pipes from Northeast mounds are fundamentally different from those designated as HIS artifacts (Seeman 1979) ..................................... .41 x INTRODUCTION Ohio Hopewell has been described variously as a culture, a phenomenon, and even an elaboration. It is known for elaborate earthworks, mound burials with specialized artifact assemblages, and an extensive trade network known as the Hopewell Interaction Sphere (Caldwell, 1964; Seeman 1979). Historically, archaeologists have implied that groups participating in this trade network and burying their dead in mounds were, in various senses, Hopewell. The Caneadea Mound provides an opportunity to assess this long held assumption. Because no site report was ever written for the Caneadea Mound, one has been incorporated into this paper, providing details about the location, prior research, the mound excavation and its contents. Following this I will examine the evidence from the Caneadea Mound within its regional context to develop my hypothesis that the mound-building people of the Northeast were engaged in practices that had been developing dynamically for thousands of years, rather than adopting an ideology introduced from the Hopewell of central and southern Ohio. Natural Setting The Caneadea Mound is located on the first major terrace above the floodplain of the Genesee River. It lies north of the village of Caneadea, New York, on the east 1 bank of the river, within a large meander. Here the elevation is approximately 375 meters (1230 feet) above sea level. The valley floor at Caneadea is a mile across, flanked by gently sloping, forested hills rising more than 90 meters (300 feet) above to the east and west. The rolling terrain results from the glaciation of the dissected Allegheny Plateau. As a result, the soils are very young. In the valley, the soil is characterized as Chenango gravelly silt loam, while upland areas range from Caneadea silty clay loam to Volusia silt loam (Gordon 1940). The Genesee River flows northward from this point, tumbling over three cataracts as it passes through the 900 foot deep Letchworth Gorge on its way to the Lake Ontario Plain. The Allegheny watershed lies 15 miles to the west, via Oil Creek, in the Olean Creek drainage basin. Travel from the vicinity of Caneadea Mound to all other mound sites would have required portage. Following the Wisconsin glaciation, the first trees to encroach upon the tundra were spruce (Picea sp.), which remained dominant until around 10,500 B.P., when pines (Pinus sp.) gain prominence (Miller 1973). Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) succeeded the pines by 8,500 B.P., dominating until around 4,300 B.P., when a sharp decline allowed hardwood
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