Date of Award
12-1984
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Anthropology
First Advisor
Dr. William Cremin
Second Advisor
Dr. Elizabeth Garland
Third Advisor
Dr. Robert Jack Smith
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
The Schlemmer site is located about 20 km southwest of Cahokia Mounds State Park at the southern edge of Dupo, Illinois. This thesis analayzes 166 vessels recovered from 29 pit and structural features at the southern portion of the site. Using a newly defined late prehistoric American Bottom chronology, the Schlemmer vessels were assigned to either Patrick phase (A.D. 600-800) or Lindeman phase (A.D. 950-1000) components. The research discussed in this thesis attempts to describe and explain the formal variation in Schlemmer ceramic vessels through time and space. To this end, the ceramics have undergone both analytical attribute and typological methods of analysis to trace frequencies and association of selected attributes within each vessel assemblage. It is the contention of this thesis that ceramics recovered from small hamlet or farmstead sites, like Schlemmer, can yield information vital to understanding the late prehistoric ceramic developments in the American Bottom region.
Recommended Citation
Berres, Thomas Edward, "A Formal Analysis of Ceramic Vessels from the Schlemmer Site (11-S-382): A Late Woodland/ Mississippian Occupation in St. Clair County, Illinois" (1984). Masters Theses. 1484.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/1484