Peregrine, Peter, R. Criss Helmkamp, Robert Fry, Mike Danti (Department of
Sociology and Anthropology Purdue University)
PURDUE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY: SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
The Purdue Archaeological Survey continued its program of site survey in west-central
Indiana, covering over two thousand acres during the past year. The complete survey
of two square mile sections in White and Jasper Counties comprised a large part
of this work. Section 3 of Princeton Township in White County yielded eight very
large sites. More detailed survey will be necessary to divide these sites into
smaller, culturally meaningful units. A multicomponent site with evidence of intact
Township in Jasper County, the second square-mile section surveyed, was covered
in pasture and woods, and yielded only three sites. These three sites were made
up of very large surface scatters, and further study is needed to create more
well-defined units. The occupations in these two sections were generally Archaic
or Mississippian in age, and only one Woodland component was found. The sites
tended to occupy small sandy rises above what were low swampy areas before the
region was drained. Upcoming excavation and survey should help determine if this
is a general pattern of occupation in the upland regions of west-central Indiana. [return to 1988 abstracts menu][continue to next]