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information. A brief recapitulation of field activities is indicated 

 below : 



13JH1— Visited only 13JH202— Excavated 



13JH2— Tested, surface collection 13JH203— Tested 



13JH3— Tested 13JH204— Tested 



13JH4— Tested 13JH205— Tested 



13JH5— Not visited 13JH206— Tested 



13JH6— Visited only 13JH207— Tested 



13JH7— Visited only 13JH208— Surface coUection 



13JH8— Not visited 13JH209— Visited, surface collection 



13JH9 — Not visited examined 



13JH201— Tested, surface collection 13JH210— Visited 

 examined 



The following generalizations are offered in full awareness of the 

 patent limitations of the data: 



(1) The occupation is represented by mound structures, open occupation sites, 

 and rock siielters. 



(2) Mound structures, restricted to ridge tops overlooking the Iowa River or 

 its confluents, are of both linear and conical forms. 



(3) Both varieties probably represent complementary portions of a single 

 pattern that is related to the Effigy-Linear Complex of northwestern Illinois and 

 adjacent areas. 



(4) Open occupation sites are situated both on ridgetops and on riverine flats. 



(a) Sites investigated in the former areas are non- (not necessarily 

 pre-) ceramic, with a possible Archaic- Woodland temporal range. 



(b) Rivertime sites are much disturbed by flood action. Pottery has not 

 been excavated, but informants indicate its presence. An Archaic-Oneota- 

 Historic range is suggested. 



(5) Restricted by local topography, rock shelters are infrequent. The single 

 excavated shelter suggested two components, a nonceramic( ?) horizon, succeeded 

 by a Middle-Late Woodland pottery zone. Probable relationship lies with foci 

 in northeastern Iowa and adjacent portions of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. 



On the basis of the preceding presentation a Mid- to Late- 

 Woodland affiliation can be fairly demonstrated for Sites 13JH3 

 and 13JH4, and for the ceramic component of Woodpecker Cave 

 (13JH202). A similar, although admittedly less definitive relation- 

 ship, is suggested for portions of the inventory recovered from Sites 

 13JH2, 13JH201, 13JH205, and 13JH209. Traits characteristic of 

 the Oneota Aspect are not unequivocally present in any of the 

 excavated materials. Upon the basis of local information, however, 

 Sites 13JH2 and 13JH205 have been assigned Oneota components, 

 the latter with a transition into the European contact period. 



The Archaic Pattern is much more difficult to document. Nowhere 

 in the data is there satisfactory evidence of stratification or of more 

 than putative typological similarity. Nonetheless, and this quite 

 tentatively, a component of Site 13JH2 is suggested as being within 

 the Archaic range. 



