D. Collectively the settlement aggregation became known as the Powers phase. Griffin and James E. The project focused on the occupation of a large Pleistocene-age terrace in the Little Black River Lowlandâa large expanse of lowlying land just east of the Ozark Highlandâbetween roughly A. 1400. The Powers Phase Project was a multiyear archaeological program undertaken in southeastern Missouri by the University of Michigan in the late 1960s and early 1970s. 1250 and A. Archa- logical surveys conducted south of Powers Fort in the 1960s revealed the pr- ence of numerous smaller sites of varying size that contained artifact assemblages similar to those from the larger center. Not only could the s- tial relation of communities in the system be ascertained, but the fact that str- tures within the communities had burned appeared to provide a unique opp- tunity to examine such things as differences in household items between and among structures and where various activities had occurred within a house. With these ideas in mind, James B. D. Test excavations indicated that at least some of the smaller sites contained burned structures and that the burning had sealed household items on the floors below the collapsed architectural e- ments. The largest site in the region is Powers Fortâa palisaded mound center that - ceived archaeological attention as early as the late nineteenth century. Thus there appeared to be an opportunity to examine a late prehistoric settlement system to a degree not possible previously.
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Mississippian Community Organization
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