Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

Abstract

For more than one hundred years historians and archaeologists have debated the location of the 1730 fortification created by the Meskwaki on the prairies of eastern Illinois. After four summers of archaeological exploration of the Arrowsmith Battle Ground (11ML6), architectural patterns consistent with the historical record of the siege and diagnostic elements of the Meskwaki material assemblage have been identified. The present paper summarizes these findings and concludes this to be the site of the 1730 Fox fort.

Comments

This article was originally published in The Wisconsin Archeologist. 2008. Vol. 89 (1&2).

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Copyright is retained by Wisconsin Archeological Society and is published here with their permission.

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