"Birch Lake Burial Mound Group" by Elden Johnson, Martin Q. Peterson et al.

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Elden Johnson, University of Minnesota
Martin Q. Peterson, University of Minnesota
Jan E. Streiff, University of Minnesota

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1969

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Burial--Minnesota; Prairie Island Indian Reservation (Minn.); Minnesota--Antiquities; Indigenous peoples--Antiquities

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Five small prehistoric burial mounds located near Birch Lake on Prairie Island in Goodhue county of southeastern Minnesota were excavated in 1968. The secondary burial of adults in shallow pits and unaccompanied by mortuary offerings follows widespread prehistoric patterns in the upper Mississippi valley. The mortuary pottery vessel buried with the single primary burial suggests construction of the mounds during the period of initial Mississippian cultural intrusion, perhaps shortly after 1,000 A.D.

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Johnson, E., Peterson, M. Q., & Streiff, J. E. (1969). Birch Lake Burial Mound Group. Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science, Vol. 36 No.1, 3-8.
Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/jmas/vol36/iss1/2

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