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Author: John E. Dallman
1983, 134 pp.
Mill Creek occupation in northwestern Iowa began about A.D. 900 and declined around A.D. 1500. This period straddles a time of marked climate change in the region. The warm, moist Neo-Atlantic episode offered a climate that was favorable to both agriculture and the support of woodland ecosystems. About A.D. 1200 this episode began to give way to the cooler, dryer Pacific episode. This report examines in detail cultural, faunal, and other environmental clues from two Mill Creek sites, the Matt Brewster site (13CK15) and the Phipps site (13CK21), evaluating the effects of climate change on subsistence activities and interpreting cultural adjustments these changes brought about.
“. . . Dallman’s work is a scholarly contribution to our understanding of the relationship of man and environment in prehistory. . . . Dallman’s book contains essential information for Plains and Midwestern archaeologists, faunal specialists, those interested in climatic change and prehistoric subsistence strategies, and for the more general reader as well.”
Thomas E. Emerson, The Wisconsin Archeologist
