Steed-Kisker

Steed-Kisker is a cultural phase (name that archaeologists give to a group of culturally similar peoples) that is part of the larger Central Plains Tradition group of prehistoric people who occupied the Great Plains region of the United States in prehistoric times. This group lived primarily around the Kansas City, Missouri (MO) area from about AD 900 to AD 1400.

ee also

*Mississippian culture
*Plains Indians

References

* Logan, Brad. "Archaeological Investigations at the Evans Locality Stranger Creek Valley, Northeastern Kansas-2003" Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work. Kansas State University, Manhattan, 2003.
* O’Brien, Patricia J. "Steed-Kisker: A Western Mississippian Settlement System." In, Mississippian Settlement Patterns, edited by Bruce D. Smith, pp. 1-19, 1978. Academic Press, New York.
* O'Brien, Patricia J. "Steed-Kisker: A Cultural Interpretation." The Missouri Archaeologist 42: 96-108, 1981.
* O'Brien, Patricia J. "Ancient Kansas City Area Borders and Trails." The Missouri Archaeologist 49: 27-39, 1988.
* O'Brien, Patricia J. "Steed-Kisker: The Western Periphery of the Mississippian Tradition.: Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 18 (1): 281-283, 1993.
* Roper, Donna. "Central Plains Tradition" In Kansas Archaeology, edited by Robert J. Hoard and William E. Banks, pp. 105-132, 2006. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence.
* Wedel, Waldo R. "Archaeological Investigations in Platte and Clay Counties, Missouri." Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum Bulletin 183. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1943.