Mary L. Simon

TL;DR: More than three decades of systematic archaeological research in the American Bottom region of southwestern Illinois have produced a continuous flow of new archaeobotanical information Pioneering syntheses by Sissel Johannessen (1984 and 1988) offered the first insights into rich and complex relationships between prehistoric humans and plants in this region.

TL;DR: Hart et al. as mentioned in this paper found that the Oneota were maize dependent agriculturalists and used wild game and plants to supplement their maize-based diets. But they did not have direct evidence for reconstructing the Langford diet and subsistence practices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the history of maize in the American Bottom region of Illinois and its importance in the development of regional Mississippian societies, specifically in the Cahokian polity located in the central Mississippi River valley are discussed.

TL;DR: A reevaluation of maize samples from this site indicates that finding was in error as mentioned in this paper, which invalidates the original report of Middle Woodland maize at Holding and support the ongoing reevaluations of maize histories in the American Bottom and western Illinois, which show that it was not an important cultivated crop plant in this part of the Midwest until about A.D. 900.

TL;DR: In this article, seed coats were recovered from the base of a fortification ditch in water-saturated contexts at the Hoxie Farm site (11CK4) in northeastern Illinois.