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Oneota Tradition

900 – 1700
CultureNorth America

A shell-tempered pottery tradition of the Upper Mississippi and Great Lakes river valleys, an Upper Mississippian sibling to Cahokia's Middle Mississippian world, ancestral to the historic Ioway and related Siouan-speaking peoples.

Persisted into the era of European contact before differentiating into the historic Siouan-speaking nations of the Upper Midwest and eastern Plains.

Borders in 1300 · drawn from 3 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 3 border frames for Oneota Tradition — the shape you scrub through changes in 900 · 1150 · 1300.

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