NORTH AMERICA: The Younge Site: An Archaeological Record from Michigan. Emerson F. Greenman

Abstract

This report deals with a pre-Columbian site in the east central part of Lapeer County, southeastern Michigan. Even though no European objects were present, the two wooden structures and the burial customs would seem to indicate that it was occupied by Indians closely related to those occupying the area when the first European settlements were established.The most significant feature from this site-which may constitute a diagnostic burial trait for the focus-is the drilling of the skulls and the ends of the long bones after death and prior to final inhumation. There is little doubt but that this procedure played an important part in maintaining a certain amount of articulation of the skeleton prior to interment. The heads of femurs were even cut down to fit into the natural openings of the pelvis (obturator foramina) in order to support the leg bones when suspended from a pole or horizontal bar.

An Interpretation of the Prehistory of the Eastern United States

“…In the accompanying figures (2)(3)(4)(5)(6) are shown chronological profiles, analogous to geological profiles, which in a general way follow the principal drainage systems of the Mississippi Valley (map, fig. 1 The first profile ( fig.…”

Possible Antecedents of the Middle Mississippian Ceramic Complex in Northeastern Arkansas

“…E, F, J, p. 163. potsherds from the surface of this site, stated that one specimen possibly belonged to the Middle Mississippian complex. 30 Another sherd 31 from this place belonged to a shouldered vessel, suggestive of ollas of that ceramic group. Though the rectangular shaped vessels typical of Marksville, Deasonville, and Coles Creek complexes, seemingly have no exact counterpart in the shell tempered ware of northeast Arkansas, there are a limited number of pieces reminiscent of them.…”