Open AccessCurrent Research: Spiro and Caddoan Connections on the Northern Frontier of Southwest Missouri
Author(s) -
Jack H. Ray
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
index of texas archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2475-9333
DOI - 10.21112/ita.2019.1.11
Subject(s) - archaeology , frontier , colonization , white (mutation) , excavation , table (database) , geography , mythology , geology , history , biochemistry , chemistry , computer science , data mining , gene , classics
Excavations during the construction of Table Rock Lake in the late 1950s resulted in a proposition that there was a colonization of peoples into the upper White River drainage from Caddoan areas to the southwest (Chapman 1980; Chapman et al. 1960). This colonization, which resulted in the formulation of the Loftin phase, is widely accepted today (O'Brien and Wood 1998; Perttula 1983, 1989; Sabo and Early 1990). Later, James Brown (1984) exposed the myth that the southwestern Ozarks was a cultural enclave that lagged behind Mississippian developments in other parts of the Trans-Mississippi South.