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Noncultivated foodstuffs include shell and husk fragments of black 

 walnuts (Juglans nigra), hickory nuts (t'aryasp.), hazelnuts {Goryhis 

 americana) , and pecans {Gary a illinoensis). 



To summarize, we quote again from Jones' report : 



"Of the four commonly cultivated food plants of the prairie tribes — 

 corn, beans, pumpkin (squash), and sunflowers — all except beans occur 

 in the material from the Steed-Kisker site. It is quite likely that they 

 were also cultivated, as they have been found in material from sites in 

 Nebraska and elsewhere in the prairie region. 



"The size and shape of the corn kernels, and the size, shape, and 

 row number of the corncobs indicate that the corn from this site was 

 not different in any radical way from samples in our collections ob- 

 tained from prairie tribes in the past 25 years. It was typically few- 

 rowed, with slender cobs and wide, crescent-shaped kernels. 



"The pumpkin shells are similar to those of the small pumpkins 

 (commonly called squashes) found in the prairie region in sites such 

 as the Leary site, Wright site, and Walker-Gilmore site, and in the 

 Ozark-Bluff Dwellings. 



"The occurrence of sunflower seeds is particularly interesting, for 

 although they were widely grown and used in the east and prairie 

 regions the archeological record is scant. We have record of them 

 from the Ozark-Bluff-Dwellings, Kentucky-Bluff-Shelters, the Camp- 

 bell Island Village site (Fort Ancient), and from the Larson site and 

 a site in Nebraska (Nebraska Hist. Soc. N:0:9:3:H5). The seeds 

 from the Steed-Kisker site and the other prairie sites compare well 

 with each other and are similar to those from the Arikara collected 

 during the present century. 



"Shells of nuts such as hickory and walnut are common in sites in 

 eastern North America, but hazelnut and pecan are less often found. 

 The pecan does not occur north and east of the junction of the Missouri 

 and Mississippi Rivers to any great extent and has seldom been 

 reported from archeological sites. All of these doubtless were used 

 for food." 



Few identifiable animal bones or bone fragments were recovered. 

 Broken mandibles and other scraps identified as deer {Odocoileus 

 virginiarms) , to the number of 26, were recovered from house 1, from 

 pits 1, 2, 5, and 13, and from midden 1. Pit 1 also yielded the humerus 

 of a lynx {Lynx rufus), and from pit 5 came a portion of the left 

 maxillary of a medium-sized dog {Ganis familiaris). Part of the 

 jaw of a pocket gopher {Geomys hursarius) from the midden does not 

 necessarily belong in the diet of the local aboriginal group; it may 

 be from an animal that perished in its burrow or is otherwise intru- 

 sive in the site. A fragment of legbone identified as horse {Equus 

 cahalhis), found in the fill of house 1, is pitted and cracked to 



