C. Delaney-Rivera's scientific contributions

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Despite the long history of work in the American Bottom, little archaeological research has focused on the Mississippian occupations of the lower Illinois River valley, a region of westcentral Illinois relatively close to Cahokia and other floodplain Mississippian sites. Analyses of published and unpublished excavation notes, maps, and ceramic coll...

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... Excavations in the 1980s through the Center for American Archaeology (CAA) uncovered several rectangular wall-trench structures, including a larger elite structure with associated screens, two circular sweat lodges, and a number of pit features (Cook, 1983). Ceramic analysis and radiocarbon dating confirm both a Late Woodland, White Hall phase (AD 400-750) occupation (primarily in the southern portion of the site) and a more prominent, non-overlapping early Stirling-phase Mississippian occupation (Delaney-Rivera, 2004;Friberg, 2020). In 2014, a UCSB gradiometer survey covering 2 ha revealed the site to have a much larger settlement than previously estimated, with additional buildings, a possible plaza area just east of the site's known special-purpose buildings, and a series of equally spaced anomalies in the western portion of the site (Fig. 5). ...