[Algonquiana] Prehistoric Language contact ?

[Michael McCafferty]

I don't think there is any evidence to suggest such a connection between
Iroquoians and the Mississippian Tradition. Early Iroquoian culture in 
the Northeast is represented by what is known as "Owasco". There are 
projectile points, which  represent some of the first true chert 
arrowheads in eastern N.A., which show up as far west as Indiana in 
Late Woodland times and are known as "Jack's Reef," which are early 
Owasco points, dating to ca. 900 A.D. But there is no Mississippian 
connection with Iroquoians that I'm aware of.

Moreover, there's hardly any signs of Cahokia contact, for example,
to the northeast past Michigan and Ohio. And any connections of
Iroquoians west of there would need to be around 1250 to be Cahokian.

Michael




Quoting Richard Preston <prestonr at mcmaster.ca>:

> Perhaps a  southerly connection with Mississipian? An archaeologist
> named Rands published an article on this in the 1960s, focussing on
> patterns of captive torture. Possibly Robert L. Rands? Took his
> course back then. You guys are really having fun with this. Its a big
> world out there!
> cheers
> Dick
>
> http://www.richardpreston.ca/
>