Oneota Ridged Field Agriculture in Southwestern Wisconsin
- 1 July 1985
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 50 (3) , 605-612
- https://doi.org/10.2307/280324
Abstract
A series of buried ridged agricultural fields has been discovered at the Sand Lake Site (47 Lc44) in La Crosse County, Wisconsin. Associated artifacts, features, and assayed carbon samples demonstrate that the fields were constructed by Oneota people in the fifteenth century A.D. Evidence suggests that water control was a major function of the ridges.Keywords
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