“…These prairie sites may represent seasonal, or permanent, shifts in economic orientation towards the exploitation of bison (Hamilton, 1982;Meyer and Hamilton, 1994). In at least one case (Michlovic and Schneider, 1993), the makers of Sandy Lake ceramics adopted a full-fledged Plains Village lifeway, including habitation in a large fortified village and adoption of a mixed horticulture-hunting economy. In general, however, virtually all Sandy Lake and Blackduck habitation sites in both the prairie and mixed forest regions tend to be small and ephemeral, with no archaeological evidence of horticulture or domesticates.…”