Author: Dean F. Straffin
1971, 82 pp.
This publication was the first excavation report on an Oneota site from southeastern Iowa. The Kingston site is situated on the Mississippi River bluff top within twenty-five miles of the mouth of the Des Moines. This places it along one of the most probable routes of influence from Middle Mississippian regions to the Prairie Peninsula. Straffin presents a detailed discussion of cultural material from the site. The ceramics appear to be similar to ceramics from contemporary Oneota sites in northwestern Iowa, and the Chariton River region in Missouri, and faunal analysis indicates intensive exploitation of the wild food resources of the Mississippi floodplain in conjunction with gardening. The fully developed Oneota assemblage from the Kingston site substantiates the postulate that the Oneota culture developed simultaneously and largely independently from Middle Mississippian cultural influence.
