001460212 001__ 1460212 001460212 005__ 20231202003200.0 001460212 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.58090/usi.1460212 001460212 037__ $$aIR 001460212 041__ $$aeng 001460212 245__ $$aAn Examination of Early Woodland Grave Goods at the Murphy Site​ 001460212 269__ $$a2023-04-06 001460212 520__ $$aFor two semesters, I cataloged and organized materials from the Charles Lacer collection. Lacer was a local amateur archaeologist who conducted his own excavations during the early 1960s. Much of his extensive collection is housed in the archaeology lab at USI, and Dr. Strezewski has been in the process of sorting and cataloging the thousands of artifacts in order to develop an inventory of the collection’s contents. To help with this undertaking, I studied artifacts from the Murphy Site, located at the confluence of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers, in Posey County. Past research on this site has been mostly limited to the Caborn-Welborn occupations, which took place during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. My research focused on an earlier occupation possibly dating back to the late Early Woodland and early Middle Woodland periods, circa 200 B.C. After cataloging the artifacts, I studied the skeletal remains in an effort to determine the age and sex of the individuals. My goal was to piece together which grave goods were buried with which individuals. Another goal was to ascertain when these early occupations took place. In order to determine the age of this earlier occupation, five carbon dates were submitted. Two of the dates indicated an Early Woodland occupation around 400 B.C. (late Early Woodland). These dates were run on the remains of burned food found inside two potsherds. Two others, run on an animal canine tooth and a drilled piece of antler, showed a second occupation around 200 B.C. (also Late Early Woodland). We believe that the burials likely date to this second occupation. The fifth date, run on an antler tool, indicated a date of circa A.D. 1550 and is therefore part of the Caborn-Welborn occupation of the site. 001460212 536__ $$oUSI Endeavor Awards For Research & Creativity 001460212 650__ $$aArchaeology$$0(DLC)sh2007101272 001460212 650__ $$aAntiquities, Prehistoric$$0(DLC)sh 96006045 001460212 650__ $$aArchaeological dating 001460212 6531_ $$aarchaeology 001460212 6531_ $$aMurphy site 001460212 6531_ $$aearly woodland 001460212 6531_ $$agrave goods 001460212 7001_ $$aThurman, Emily$$uUniversity of Southern Indiana$$10009-0005-9513-9121 001460212 711__ $$aEndeavor Symposium$$cCarter Hall$$uUniversity of Southern Indiana$$d2023-04-06 001460212 8564_ $$yAn Examination of Early Woodland Grave Goods at the Murphy Site$$9cce3f12c-59e1-4954-af66-9051ea5d21d8$$s1914042$$uhttps://library.usi.edu/record/1460212/files/Endeavor%20Poster.pdf 001460212 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1460212$$qGLOBAL_SET 001460212 980__ $$aENDEAVOR 001460212 998__ $$aJustice, Noel D. 1986 Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Midcontinental and Eastern United States. Indiana University Press, Bloomington. 001460212 998__ $$aMunson Cheryl A. 1997 Archaeological Survey and Testing of Mississippian Caborn-Welborn Phase Sites in Posey County Indiana 1996-1997: Investigations at the Hovey Lake and Murphy Sites and Environs. Report Submitted to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, Indianapolis. 001460212 998__ $$aMunson Cheryl A. 2001 Archaeological Survey Test Excavation and Public Education in Southwestern Indiana. Report Submitted to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology, Indianapolis. 001460212 998__ $$aStrezewski, Michael 2018 The Barker Variant: A Crab Orchard Related Cultural Manifestation at the Ohio-Wabash Confluence. Illinois Archaeology 30:137–166.