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Descriptive Attribute Value(s)
Site number 42
Auxiliary ID none
Cultural affiliation
Culture phase Louisa Phase
Basis of phasing
  • other diagnostic artifacts
  • ceramic attribute analysis
  • other identifier
Describe
  • stratigraphy within alluvial fan
  • Buris Ware
  • 7 Late Woodland sherds
Artifact type
Artifact description
  • 1 recycled Steuben point
  • 64 cobble tools, various types
  • 34 flaking debris
  • 1 body sherd
  • 2 scrapers; 1 drill; 1 bifacial chopper; 1 knife
  • projectile points (no morphological descriptions)
  • Over 500 flakes
  • burned earth
  • Some chenopods, squash, and spring beauty
  • 26 burned earth
  • thinning flake
  • Over 350 pieces, mostly Burris ware, but also some Henry and Chariton
  • 50 tools, various types
  • 375 fire-cracked rock
  • 1 spokeshave; 2 scraper/knives?; 2 knives; 1 knife; 1 biface, stage 5; 1 biface fragment, stage 4?; 2 flakes knives?; 2 biface fragments, stage 5; 1 graver/notch?
  • Charcoal samples from features
  • 34 cores and tested cobbles
  • hematite
  • waste flakes of chert
  • flaking debris
  • Mostly oak charcoal
  • 5 flake fragments; 1 flake fragment?; 7 shatter; 5 thinning flakes
  • Over 3100 pieces of FCR, weighing more than 3100 g
  • 1 cobble pounder
Basis of modification Survey Instrument
Threat type Transportation related
Recommendations Other (describe)
Land use
Landform Fan
Level
Site function
Descriptive Attribute Value(s)
Smithsonian Trinomial Identifier 13LE42
Sortable Trinomial 13LE00042
Variant Trinomial Expression(s)
  • 13-LE-42
  • 13-LE-00042
Suggested Citation

David G. Anderson, Joshua Wells, Stephen Yerka, Kelsey Noack Myers, Robert Carl DeMuth, Thaddeus Geoffrey Bissett. (2014) "13LE42 from Americas/United States/Iowa/Lee County". In Iowa Site Files. Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist (OSA) (Ed). Released: 2014-03-16. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/subjects/e9486ffa-b7c3-4f0d-b51c-7c20e3c548bc> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2891bx95

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