Slough Creek, Two Dog and William Young Sites, Council Grove Lake, Kansas

摘要

The Slough Creek, Two Dog and William Young archeological sites were investigated by the Kansas State Historical Society in cooperation with the National Park Service in 1962 and 1964. The sites lay on the floodplain of the Neosho river and Munkers creek in the Council Grove lake of east central Kansas. The Slough Creek site contained the burned remains of an oval-shaped, daubed structure including pottery sherds, chipped stone tools and worked bone identifiable as a component of the Pomona focus. A radiocarbon date of A.D. 1045 was obtained. The artifacts indicated the Early Ceramic, Greenwood phase. Zone III was the primary component with a series of habitational levels marked by stone hearths, shallow pits, debitage and a few postholes. Lithic artifacts were abundant. Diagnostic points, knives, axes, gouges and two ceramic effigy heads were recovered. A date of 3500 B.C. was determined. The report presents definitive identifications for the Greenwood and Munkers Creek phases.