North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics
North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics
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Project Name: Iliniwek Village State Historic Site, MO (1);
Reference: Grantham, L.D., Butler, W.B., DeVore, S.L., and J.W. Walker. (1995). Geophysical Investigations at Iliniwek Village State Historic Site: A 17th Century Illini Village in Northeast Missouri. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Plains Conference, Laramie, Wyoming.
Resistance data from the Iliniwek Site providing a detailed picture of the village layout. The longhouses were represented by low resistive values while the paths between the structures were substantially more resistive. In the southern half of the geophysical survey area the low resistive areas appeared to indicate the reuse of the area for longhouse construction as well as the shape of individual longhouse structures. In the north central part of the survey area a circular anomaly was noted. Subsequent excavations of these areas indicated the presence of multiple building episodes associated with the longhouses and a circular structure centered near N940/E1030.