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Toward a Processual Understanding of the Initial Variant of the Middle Missouri Tradition: The Case of the Mill Creek Culture of Iowa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Duane C. Anderson
Duane C. Anderson*
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Dayton Museum of Natural History, 2629 Ridge Avenue, Dayton, OH 45414
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Abstract

If research on the Initial Variant of the Middle Missouri tradition is to progress, more attention must be given to the development of a processual understanding of the groups represented. This article provides a discussion of the Mill Creek culture as it has been formulated through the culture-history approach. The background information is provided as a means of gaining insights into factors of processual significance that can be investigated deductively. The paper then presents a model of Mill Creek culture process and suggests hypotheses that are believed to have broad implications for understanding the causes of change and interaction within the Initial Variant.

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American Antiquity , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , July 1987 , pp. 522 - 537
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1987

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