Steed Kisker Site
J. Mett Shippee shovel testing the Steed Kisker site
in hopes of finding a Mississippian house. The photograph was taken by Michael Fisher and
digitized by Michael Fuller.
Waldo Wedel map of burial discovered at Steed Kisker.
Pottery vessels from Steed Kisker site.
Pottery sherds and chipped stone tools from the Steed Kisker site.
The first published report of the Steed-Kisker
site is found in "Archaeological Investigations in Platte and Clay Counties, Missouri" in
the United State National Museum Bulletin 183 by Waldo R. Wedel (1943).
A published description of the
Steed Kisker site was written
by J. Mett Shippee and published in "Archaeological Remains in
the Kansas City Area: the Mississippian Occupation" Missouri Archaeological
Society Research Series 9, 1972. The site is also described in "Steed-Kisker" A Western Missisippian Settlement System" by Patricia J. O'Brien in Mississippian Settlement Patterns (1978), edited by Bruce D. Smith. It is also
discussed in "Prehistoric Agriculture in the Central Plains" by Mary J. Adair in the University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology, 16 (1988).
Radiocarbon dates for 23PL13 are reported by Adair based upon work O'Brien's work:
AD 860+/-110, AD 1000+/-110, AD 1080+/-80, AD 1110+/-110,
AD 1210+/-100, AD 1230+/-100.
Special thanks to Laura Ginn for scanning with some of the images from Waldo Wedel's report for inclusion in this webpage as part of her honor's project for Anthropology 101.
Webpage constructed by Michael Fuller 9 January 2004
Revised 1 January 2008