The Boven Earthworks, also known as the Boven Enclosure, the Mosquito Creek Earthworks, the Falmouth Inclosure, or Missaukee III[2] is a Native American archaeological site designated 20MA19 located near Falmouth and Lake City, Michigan along Mosquito Creek. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]
Boven Earthworks | |
| Location | Reeder Township, Michigan |
|---|---|
| Nearest city | Lake City, Michigan |
| Area | less than one acre |
| NRHP reference No. | 73002293[1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 14, 1973 |
Description
editThe Boven Earthworks includes four enclosures, with an associated burial mound.[2]
History
editThe Boven Earthworks were likely constructed around AD 1470 +/-100.[3]
The first circle was discovered by University of Michigan researchers in the summer of 1924 while they studied the nearby Aetna Earthworks.[4]
Excavations were conducted on different circles by staff led by Emerson Greenman from the University of Michigan in 1926[2] and by Charles Cleland from Michigan State University in 1965. They found light habitation debris and no palisade or wall indications. At least one circle had two breaches likely used as gateways, all similar to Aetna.[2][5]
The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]
Further reading
edit- Emerson F Greenman, "Michigan Mounds, with Special Reference to Two in Missaukee County" (PDF), Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, 7, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan: 1–9
- Willard Michael James Baird (1976), The Missaukee Mounds, Missaukee County Bicentennial Committee
- Harold Wesbrook Moll (1958), Earthwork Enclosures in Ogemaw, Missaukee and Alcona Counties, Michigan
References
edit- ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b c d Meghan C L Howey (2012), Mound Builders and Monument Makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200-1600, University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 113, 114, 141, ISBN 9780806188058
- ^ Clare McHale Milner; John M. O'Shea (1998), Robert C. Mainfort; Lynne P. Sullivan (eds.), "The Socioeconomic Role of Late Woodland Enclosures in Northern Lower Michigan", Ancient Earthen Enclosures of the Eastern Woodlands, University Press of Florida, ISBN 9780813015927
- ^ Hinsdale, W.B. (1925). Primitive Man in Michigan. University of Michigan. p. 45.
- ^ Meghan C. L. Howey; John M. O'Shea (April 2006), "Bear's Journey and the Study of Ritual in Archaeology", American Antiquity, 71 (2), Society for American Archaeology: 261–282, JSTOR 40035905
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