The Yeo Site (23CL 199):

Abstract

In 1976 Alfred E. Johnson proposed a subsistencesettlement model for Kansas City Hopewell. The model consisted of a subsistence territory encompassirig a drainage upon which a large permanent village settlement was located near its mouth with a series of smaller specialized ancillary sites located up from the village. Limited corn and squash horticulture would be present in the latter half of the occupation too. A test of such a model would be actual limited activity sites. The Yeo site, a late kansas City Hopewell site, is a hickory nut/marsh elder seed collection/storage station. It is exactly the type of site necessary to substantiate such a model. Also, such a test implies the testing of the notion that there are “specialized, limited activity sites,” sites which are important to some of the suppositions of the New Archaeology. Additionally, the presence of the combination of hickory/cultivated marsh elder (Iva annua var. macrocarpa) utilization within the context of an upland oak-history forest may be interpreted as supporting Asch and Asch’s (1978) model of marsh elder domestication.