Reply to Skousen and Aiuvalasit: On the Primacy of Archaeological Data. Issue 1 (January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: White, A.J.; Munoz, Samuel E.; Schroeder, Sissel; Stevens, Lora R.
• Is Part Of: American antiquity. Volume 86:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 203
• Page End: 205
• Publication Date: 2021-01
• Subjects: Cahokia, -- fecal stanols, -- protohistory, -- Illinois Confederation, -- paleodemography, -- paleoclimate, -- resilience; Cahokia, -- estanoles fecales, -- protohistoria, -- Confederación de Illinois, -- paleodemografía, -- paleoclima, -- resiliencia; North America -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; America -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Archaeology -- North America -- Periodicals; Archaeology -- America -- Periodicals; Anthropology -- America -- Periodicals; North America -- History -- Periodicals; America -- History -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 970
• DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2020.87
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0002-7316

Abstract

Abstract : Skousen and Aiuvalasit critique our article on the post-Mississippian occupation of the Horseshoe Lake watershed (White et al. 2020) along two lines: (1) that our findings are not supported due to a lack of archaeological evidence, and (2) that we do not consider alternative hypotheses in explaining the lake's fecal stanol record. We first respond to the matter of fecal stanol deposition in Horseshoe Lake and then address the larger issue, the primacy of archaeological data in interpreting the past.