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Author: Marshall B. McKusick
1973, 181 pp.
In the summer of 1970, the discovery of the Grant village in northeastern Iowa uncovered post molds of huge, many-family houses measuring twenty-five feet wide and up to ninety feet long. This was the first firm evidence of such huge buildings within the Oneota archaeological tradition; a tradition frequently identified with the far-ranging Siouan tribes. The second contribution of this report was the definition of the very early Grant type pottery within the Oneota Tradition. The Grant village supports the interpretation of an early separation of the Oneota culture from its Middle Mississippian forbearers. McKusick describes the excavation of the Grant Oneota Village site and its position in the sequence of prehistoric habitations on the Hartley Terrace in northeast Iowa. The discussion includes commentary by ten prominent anthropologists including David A. Baerreis, Alfred W. Bowers, David S. Brose, Hester A. Davis, Henry P. Field, Elizabeth J. Glenn, Dale R. Henning, William M. Hurley, Floyd G. Lounsbury, and G. Richard Pesket. This work represents a major contribution to the understanding of the Oneota tradition.
