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COMPONENTS OF THE FORT ANCIENT ASPECT, MIDDLE MISSISSIPPI 

 PHASE, MISSISSIPPI PATTERN 



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East of the Fort Ancient Aspect, on the headwaters of the Ohio, 

 Potomac, and western Susquehanna Rivers, lie two closely related 

 basically Woodland Aspects displajdng numerous influences of Mis- 

 sissippian character, seemingly derived from the Feurt and Clover 

 Foci of the Fort Ancient culture. Such influences became so strong 

 in the later phases of the Monongahela Focus that the latter has 

 sometimes been considered a part of the Mississippi Pattern. Histori- 

 cally, however, the Monongahela roots seem to be Woodland, the 

 Mississippi traits coming in as foreign elements from the west, and 

 being of particular importance in the westernmost focus — the Monon- 



