Cloverdale archaeological site

Archaeological site in Missouri, US

The Cloverdale archaeological site (23BN2) is an archaeological site located near present-day St. Joseph, Missouri. It is situated at the mouth of a small valley that opens into the Missouri River.

Excavations have shown that the site was first occupied by Kansas City Hopewell (c. 100 to 500 CE) peoples. Hundreds of years later, it was occupied by Steed-Kisker peoples (c. 1200) in the area of present-day Kansas City, Missouri. They were originally thought to be of the Plains Village period or tradition that was widespread in the central plains.

But archeologists have found evidence of significant differences, including habitation in farmsteads rather than villages, and pottery and building design more similar to the Middle Mississippian found at Cahokia, east of the Mississippi River, than to what was typical of the Plains Village. For instance, a house excavated at Cloverdale was similar to some at Cahokia: small, rectangular and partially subterranean, with wall posts set in individual holes.[1]

In addition, Middle Mississippian shouldered jars with incised decoration were found at Cloverdale; these were typical of Cahokia style, as were water bottles, bean pots, and certain effigy forms found here. Other Mississippian items were many projectile points found at this site.[1]

They have concluded that from about 1000-1250 CE, the people were migrants from Cahokia and similar Mississippian centers. The people increasingly adapted to local culture, resources and materials, developing a tradition that combined Mississippian and Plains elements.[1]

Cahokia had developed a major urban center to the east of the Mississippi River, featuring numerous platform mounds and other forms of major earthworks, and gathering a large, dense population.[2] It was the largest and central urban center of the Mississippian culture, which extended throughout the Ohio and Mississippi valleys and into the Southeast.

## See also

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* List of Hopewell sites
* List of Mississippian sites
* Mississippian culture
* Mound builder (people)

## References

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1. ^ a b c O'Brien, Patricia J. "Steed-Kisker: The Western Periphery of the Mississippian Tradition.: Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 18 (1): 281-283, 1993
2. ^ "Cloverdale Archaeological Site". Archived from the original on August 19, 2023. Retrieved 2009-10-09.

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Hopewellian peoples

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* Mound Builders
* List of archaeological periods (North America)

Ohio Hopewell|

* Beam Farm
* Benham Mound
* Cary Village Site
* Cedar-Bank Works
* Dunns Pond Mound
* Ellis Mounds
* Ety Enclosure
* Ety Habitation Site
* Everett Knoll Complex
* Fort Ancient
* Fortified Hill Works
* Great Hopewell Road
* High Banks Works
* Hopeton Earthworks
* Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
* Indian Mound Cemetery
* Keiter Mound
* Marietta Earthworks
* Moorehead Circle
* Mound of Pipes
* Nettle Lake Mound Group
* Newark Earthworks
* Oak Mounds
* Orators
* Perin Village Site
* Pollock Works
* Portsmouth Earthworks
* Rocky Fork Enclosures
* Rocky Fork Mounds
* Seip Earthworks and Dill Mounds District
* Shawnee Lookout
* Shriver Circle Earthworks
* Stubbs Earthworks
* Tremper Mound and Works
* Williamson Mound Archeological District

Crab Orchard culture|

* Carrier Mills Archaeological District
* Cleiman Mound
* Hubele site
* Mann site
* Mount Vernon Site
* O'byams Fort site
* Wilson site
* Yankeetown site

Goodall focus|

* Goodall site
* Norton Mound group

Havana Hopewell culture|

* Albany Mounds State Historic Site
* Dickson Mounds
* Duncan Farm
* Golden Eagle-Toppmeyer Site
* Kamp Mound Site
* Mound House site
* Naples Archeological District
* Naples Mound 8
* Ogden-Fettie Site
* Rockwell Mound
* Sinnissippi Mounds
* Toolesboro Mound Group

Kansas City Hopewell|

* Cloverdale archaeological site
* Renner Village Archeological Site
* Trowbridge Archeological Site

Marksville culture|

* Crooks Mound
* Grand Gulf Mound
* Marksville Prehistoric Indian Site
* Mott Archaeological Preserve

Miller culture|

* Bynum Mound and Village Site
* Ingomar Mound
* Miller Site
* Pharr Mounds
* Pinson Mounds

Point Peninsula complex|

* Lewiston Mound
* Serpent Mounds Park
* LeVescounte Mounds

Swift Creek culture
Santa Rosa-Swift Creek culture

* Crystal River Archaeological State Park
* Etowah Indian Mounds
* Leake Mounds
* Kolomoki Mounds
* Miner's Creek site
* Pierce Site
* Swift Creek mound site
* Third Gulf Breeze
* Yearwood site
* Yent Mound

Other Hopewellian peoples|

* Armstrong culture
* Copena culture
* Fourche Maline culture
* Laurel complex
* Saugeen complex
* Old Stone Fort (Tennessee)

Exotic trade items|

* Copper
* Galena
* Mica
* Fresh water pearls
* Obsidian
* Pipestone
* Sea shells

Related topics
Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley
Black drink
burial mound
Ceremonial pipe
Effigy mound
Hopewell pottery
Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks
Horned Serpent
Eastern Agricultural Complex
Underwater panther

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Mississippian and related cultures

* List of Mississippian sites
* Timeline of Mississippi valley

Middle
Mississippian|

| American Bottom
and Upper Mississippi|

* Aztalan
* Big Eddy
* Cahokia
* Monks Mound
* Mound 34
* Mound 72
* Ramey state
* Woodhenge
* Cloverdale
* Dickson Mounds
* Emerald Acropolis
* Emmons Cemetery
* Horseshoe Lake
* John Chapman
* Kuhn Station
* Larson
* Lunsford-Pulcher
* McCune
* Mitchell
* Orendorf
* Sleeth
* Starr
* Steed-Kisker culture
* Sugarloaf Mound

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Lower Ohio River and
Confluence area|

* Adams site
* Dogtooth Bend Mounds
* Kincaid Mounds
* Marshall Site
* Millstone Bluff
* Orr-Herl
* Rowlandton Mound
* Towosahgy
* Turk Site
* Twin Mounds
* Ware Mounds
* Wickliffe Mounds

Middle Ohio River|

* Angel Mounds
* Angel phase
* Annis Mound
* Bone Bank
* Caborn-Welborn culture
* Ellerbusch
* Hovey Lake-Klein
* Hovey Lake District
* Murphy
* Prather
* Slack Farm
* Tolu
* Welborn Village
* Yankeetown

Tennessee and
Cumberland|

* Backusburg
* Beasley Mounds
* Brentwood Library
* Brick Church
* Castalian Springs
* Dunbar Cave
* Fewkes Group
* Hiwassee Island
* Link Farm
* Mound Bottom
* Riverview
* Sellars
* Obion
* Old Town
* Swallow Bluff

Central and Lower
Mississippi|

* Belle Meade
* Boone's
* Boyd
* Campbell
* Carson
* Chucalissa
* Denmark
* Eaker
* Janet's
* Menard-Hodges
* Murphy
* Nodena
* Nodena phase
* Owl Creek
* Parkin
* Quigualtam
* Tipton phase
* Tunica
* Koroa
* Yazoo
* Walls phase

South Appalachian
Mississippian|

* Adamson
* Avery
* Beaverdam Creek
* Bell Field Mound
* Bessemer
* Biltmore
* Blair
* Bussell Island
* Chauga
* Chiaha
* Chota
* Citico
* Coosa
* Dallas phase
* Dyar
* Etowah
* Garden Creek
* Hoojah Branch
* Irene
* Jere Shine
* Joara
* Joe Bell
* King
* Lamar
* Lamar phase
* Liddell
* Little Egypt
* Long Swamp
* Mabila
* Mandeville
* McMahan
* Moccasin Bend
* Moundville
* Mouse Creek phase
* Mulberry
* Muscogee (Creek)
* Nacoochee
* Nikwasi
* Ocmulgee
* Park Mound
* Pisgah phase
* Punk Rock Shelter
* Rembert
* Roods Landing
* Rucker's Bottom
* Savannah
* Shiloh
* Sixtoe
* Summerour
* Taskigi
* Tomotley
* Toqua
* Town Creek
* Waddells Mill Pond
* Wilbanks

Fort Walton culture|

* Anhaica
* Apalachee
* Apalachee Province
* Cayson
* Corbin–Tucker
* Fort Walton Mound
* Lake Jackson
* Leon-Jefferson culture
* Letchworth
* Velda
* Yon

Pensacola culture|

* Bottle Creek
* Dauphin Island
* Fort Walton
* Hickory Ridge Cemetery
* Naval Live Oaks Cemetery
* Pensacola people

Plaquemine
Mississippian|

* Anna
* Atchafalaya Basin
* Emerald
* Fitzhugh
* Flowery
* Fosters
* Ghost
* Glass
* Grand Village of the Natchez
* Holly Bluff
* Jaketown
* Jordan
* Julice
* Mangum
* Mazique
* Medora
* Mott
* Natchez
* Taensa
* Pocahontas
* Routh
* Scott Place
* Sims
* Transylvania
* Venable
* Winterville

Caddoan
Mississippian|

* Battle
* Belcher
* Blue Spring Shelter
* Bluffton
* Caddo
* Caddoan Mounds
* Gahagan
* Hughes
* Ka-Do-Ha Indian Village
* Keller
* Spiro

Upper Mississippian
cultures|

| Oneota|

* Anker
* Beattie Park
* Blood Run
* Carcajou Point
* Fifield
* Fisher Mound Group
* Gentleman Farm
* Grand Village of the Illinois
* Griesmer
* Hartley Fort
* Hotel Plaza
* Hoxie Farm
* Huber
* Juntunen
* Knoll Spring
* Mero site
* Moccasin Bluff
* Oak Forest
* Palos
* Plum Island
* Roche-a-Cri Petroglyphs
* Schwerdt
* Summer Island

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Fort Ancient culture|

* Alligator Effigy Mound
* Clover
* Dodge
* Leo Petroglyph
* Serpent Mound
* SunWatch Indian Village

Culture|

| Agriculture|

* Beans
* Chenopodium
* Little barley
* Maize
* Marshelder
* Pumpkin
* Squash
* Sunflower
* Three Sisters
* Tobacco

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Artwork|

* Emmons mask
* Copper plates
* Rogan plates
* Spiro plates
* Wulfing cache
* Duck River cache
* Long-nosed god maskette
* Mill Creek chert
* Pottery
* Shell gorget
* Stone statuary

Languages|

* Caddoan
* Central Algonquian
* Cherokee
* Mobilian Jargon
* Muskogean
* Natchez
* Taensa
* Siouan
* Timucuan
* Tunican
* Yuchi

Religion|

* Ballgame (Southeastern)
* Northern
* Black drink
* Burial mound
* Ceremonial pipe
* Chanunpa
* Chunkey
* Earth/fertility cult
* Green Corn Ceremony
* Horned Serpent
* Platform mound
* Red Horn
* Sacred bundle
* Village bundle
* Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
* Stone box grave
* Thunderbird
* Underwater panther

Related topics
Chevron bead
Clarksdale bell
Mound Builders
de Soto Expedition

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Pre-Columbian North America

Periods
Lithic
Archaic
Formative
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Archaeological
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* Adena
* Alachua
* Ancient Beringian
* Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)
* Anishinaabe
* Avonlea
* Baytown
* Belle Glade
* Buttermilk Creek complex
* Caborn-Welborn
* Cades Pond
* Calf Creek
* Caloosahatchee
* Clovis
* Coles Creek
* Comondú
* Deptford
* Folsom
* Fort Ancient
* Fort Walton
* Fremont
* Glacial Kame
* Glades
* Hohokam
* Hopewell
* List of Hopewell sites
* La Jolla
* Las Palmas
* Maritime Archaic
* Mississippian
* List of Mississippian sites
* Mogollon
* Monongahela
* Old Cordilleran
* Oneota
* Paleo-Arctic
* Paleo-Indians
* Patayan
* Plano
* Plaquemine
* Poverty Point
* Red Ocher
* Safety Harbor
* Santa Rosa-Swift Creek
* St. Johns
* Steed-Kisker
* Suwannee Valley
* Tchefuncte
* Troyville
* Weeden Island

Archaeological
sites|

* Angel Mounds
* Anzick site
* Bandelier National Monument
* Bastian
* Benson
* Blue Spring Shelter
* Bluefish Caves
* The Bluff Point Stoneworks
* Brewster
* Cahokia
* Candelaria Cave
* Carlisle Fort
* Casa Grande
* Chaco Canyon
* Coso Rock Art District
* Crystal River
* Cuarenta Casas
* Cueva de la Olla
* Cutler
* Eaker
* El Fin del Mundo
* El Vallecito
* Effigy Mounds
* Etowah Indian Mounds
* Eva
* Folsom
* Fort Ancient
* Fort Center
* Fort Juelson
* Four Mounds
* Gila Cliff Dwellings
* Glenwood
* Grimes Point
* Helen Blazes
* Holly Bluff
* Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
* Horr's Island
* Huápoca
* Key Marco
* Kimball Village
* Kincaid Mounds
* Kolomoki Mounds
* Lake Jackson Mounds
* Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site
* L'Anse aux Meadows
* Lynch Quarry Site
* Marksville
* Marmes Rockshelter
* Meadowcroft Rockshelter
* Mesa Verde
* Moaning Cavern
* Moorehead Circle
* Morrison Mounds
* Moundville
* Mummy Cave
* Nodena site
* Ocmulgee Mounds
* Old Stone Fort
* Orwell site
* Paquime
* Painted Bluff
* Parkin Park
* Pinson Mounds
* Plum Bayou Mounds
* Portsmouth Earthworks
* Poverty Point
* Pueblo Bonito
* Rassawek
* Recapture Canyon
* River Styx
* Roberts Island
* Rock Eagle
* Rock Hawk
* Rosenstock Village
* Russell Cave
* Salmon Ruins
* Serpent Mound
* Sierra de San Francisco
* Shell ring sites
* Spiro Mounds
* Stallings Island
* SunWatch
* Taos Pueblo
* Town Creek Indian Mound
* Turkey River Mounds
* Upward Sun River
* Velda Mound
* West Oak Forest Earthlodge
* Wickiup Hill
* Windover
* Winterville
* Wupatki

Human
remains|

* Anzick-1
* Arlington Springs Man
* Buhl Woman
* Kennewick Man
* La Brea Woman
* Leanderthal Lady
* Melbourne Man
* Minnesota Woman
* Peñon woman
* Spirit Cave mummy
* Vero man

Miscellaneous|

* Aridoamerica
* Ballgame
* Black drink
* Ceremonial pipe
* Chanunpa
* Chunkey
* Clovis point
* Container Revolution
* Eastern Agricultural Complex
* Eden point
* Effigy mound
* Falcon dancer
* Folsom point
* Green Corn Ceremony
* Horned Serpent
* Kiva
* Medicine wheel
* Metallurgy
* Mi'kmaq hieroglyphic writing
* Mound Builders
* N.A.G.P.R.A.
* Norse colonization of North America
* Oasisamerica
* Piasa
* Projectile point
* Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
* Stickball
* Three Sisters agriculture
* Thunderbird
* Transoceanic contact
* Underwater panther
* Water glyphs

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